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In A Big Win For Free Speech, Judge Blocks Hawaii Law Censoring Political Satire

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Humorless Democrats in the Trump Derangement Syndrome era can't take a joke. Literally. Liberals in Blue state Hawaii are so joyless that they've criminalized satire, a mainstay of politics for centuries.

But a federal judge in Honolulu just told the leftist-led Aloha State to lighten up...

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