There is absolutely no consequences to anybody for this. If you're going to ask how US citizens tolerate such blatant abuse, and why they don't do something about it - that's a very good question. Please get back to me if you find any answer to it.
Yes, the thing people gloss over is that laws are only as good as the people ruling on them, and not only is the process of selecting supreme court judges in the US a farce, one of them is openly defending his own corruption now.
In such cases, a well written, clear law on freedom of speech only increases the distance between what people think they have, and what they actually have.
There is absolutely no consequences to anybody for this. If you're going to ask how US citizens tolerate such blatant abuse, and why they don't do something about it - that's a very good question. Please get back to me if you find any answer to it.