Lori Lightfoot being sued by reporter whose press pass was revoked and his 1st Amendment rights violated

Chicago -- A reporter is suing Mayor Lori "Beetlejuice" Lightfoot for her "attack on the First Amendment" after he was verbally abused by her and ended up having his press credentials removed. [H/T Fox News]

"I was asking the obvious questions, and she lost her temper," journalist William Kelly said on "Fox & Friends" Wednesday, recalling a May exchange where she told him he was "full of crap."

"Mayor Lightfoot is in re-election mode, and she doesn't want any more embarrassing questions to go viral. So she revoked my media credential. … This is a very serious constitutional crisis in the city of Chicago."

So he's taking Lightfoot to court where a progressive judge will might trample on the US Constitution as well.

Kelly's press credentials were taken from him in August at which time he filed a federal lawsuit alleging Lightfoot and the Chicago PD Superintendent David Brown violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

Kelly spoke on Tucker Carlson's show "Tucker Carlson Tonight" in September at which time he said that Lightfoot and Brown helped create an altercation between him and Mayor Beetlejuice's security detail and he alleged that it was this "false report" that was used as the pretext to keep him out of press events. 

So it's likely that Kelly is an actual reporter who asks probing questions that make liberals like Lightfoot and Brown uncomfortable.

"The problem is that he sat down and wrote me a letter telling me that he was revoking my media credentials when the police department is down 1500 officers, we have an out-of-control crime epidemic, police suicide is at an all-time high," Kelly said Wednesday. "He's taking time out of his day to write me a letter telling me that he's revoking my media credential."

"I think the priorities are completely out of whack."

Kelly argued that the incompetent mayor is trying to protect herself from his questions about her "failures in performance" due to her facing re-election and warned that her actions could set a dangerous precedent for reporters and free speech in America.

"She wants to win this case against me and then expand this attack on the First Amendment to all the reporters who ask her real questions or any reporter nationally who would dare to ask a real question of a powerful politician," Kelly said.

Kelly said that this current lawsuit is really a fight to defend the First Amendment, one of the least favorite Amendments of the Left along with the Second Amendment and all the rest.

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"Thankfully Elon Musk restored the First Amendment on Twitter," he said. "But in Chicago, the First Amendment is on life support, if not dead."

"They say you can't fight city hall, but we need to fight city hall to restore the First Amendment if we're going to have an honest election."

Having an honest election is such a novel idea.

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