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Civil liberties advocates and a San Francisco supervisor are questioning the constitutionality of Bay Area curfew orders.

So am I.

Over five million people around the Bay Area are currently subject to a range of curfew orders designed to keep them off the streets at night.

These orders are an extraordinary restriction of our usual freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment and are a pretty ham-fisted approach to reigning in the relatively small number of people who vandalize and steal.

I'm all for removing property destruction, violence and heists from the equation, I just hope it doesn't happen at the expense of "the right of the people peaceably to assemble."

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Until the First Amendment is fully up and running again, better check your local curfew orders.

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