J. D. Vance Inquires about Ireland’s Speech Law

Senator J. D. Vance wrote a letter to the Irish ambassador inquiring about Ireland’s proposed new law which would make the utterance, publication, or mere possession of speech that a judge may infer could incite hatred of protected groups (non-whites, foreigners, LGBT, etc.) punishable:

The most important feature of the letter is that it casts the law as a potential departure from fundamental shared values of free expression, in a way that could damage relations with other free countries.