Hillary Clinton is facing a significant backlash for declaring that those who spread disinformation ought to be arrested.

One of Clinton's biggest critics, according to Fox News, is constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley.

First, though, we will look at what Clinton specifically said.

Then, we will see Turley's response to it.

Clinton's call for "criminal charges"

Clinton made the call - for Americans who spread disinformation to be arrested - during a recent appearance on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show.

"I think it's important to indict the Russians just as Mueller indicted a lot of Russians who were engaged in direct election interference and boosting Trump back in 2016," Clinton said.

She added, "But I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda and whether they should be civilly, or even in some cases, criminally charged, is something that would be a better deterrence."

The New York Post reports that this is nothing new for Clinton.

Per the outlet:

Hillary has long been one of America’s foremost censorship advocates. In 2022, she wailed that “tech platforms have amplified disinformation and extremism with no accountability” and endorsed European Union legislation to obliterate free speech.

Turley weighs in

Off the bat, Turley said that Clinton's call for Americans who spread disinformation to be arrested is "chilling."

He said:

. . . she's been one of the outstanding voices in the anti-free speech movement. Her views on free speech are quite chilling. What's interesting is that for years, the left has been trying to get people to embrace censorship, but it's hard to get a free people to give up freedom, and it's not working. And so now they're going old school with Clinton and with countries like Brazil. They're just going to straight state action prosecutions threatening people with arrest if you have opposing views.

Turley went on to highlight the irony of Clinton calling for those who spread disinformation to be arrested, considering that she is no stranger to spreading disinformation.

He said:

This is also the person that... her campaign funded the Steele dossier, which was disinformation. Her campaign was accused of being a conduit for Russian intelligence. And according to her standard, does that mean that she should be arrested? I doubt it, because it doesn't work that way.

Will people like Clinton, it is always "rule for thee, but not for me." This is all really just an effort by the political left to censor their political opponents and, if they can get away with it, put dissenters in jail.