Wellesley, MA – A Massachusetts man will get to keep a banner reading “Impeach Trump” on his home.
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The roughly 12-foot (3.5-meter) by 2-foot (0.5-meter), red, white and blue sign has been hanging from the second floor of Dan Chiasson’s home for months but recently Wellesley officials told him the banner violated town bylaws regarding size.
Chiasson, a writer who teaches at Wellesley College, was warned he could face $300 daily fines.
After he questioned whether the rules violated his rights to political expression, The Boston Globe reports town officials backed off Thursday and said the banner could stay while they reviewed the legality of the sign ordinance.
President Donald Trump lost the Boston suburb to Hillary Clinton, a Wellesley College graduate, by a more than a 3-to-1 margin.
Political speech is the most lightly-regulated speech.
How is this news? This site has gone downhill since being so antitrump
Another case of Trump derangement syndrome. That’s probably hashomer’s home.
Try doing that with Clinton ,or Obama !!!!
It’s his own home,and his banner can state “Impeach Moshe Pippick”, if he so desires. Freedom of speech, as long as the speech does not violate community standards, such as filthy speech.
One would imagine that the bylaw is legal if the bylaw relates only to aesthetics (or safety, as it looks located near electrical wire), such that once the aesthetics (or safety concerns) are satisfied the sign would be allowed, and that this aesthetics was enforced evenly across the board.