Let’s Be Honest: We Just Don’t Want a Dialogue
Yet another college free-speech case has led me to the conclusion that we just don’t want a dialogue on anything of substance.
Tagged: free speech
Like Jason Voorhees In That Last Scene
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Religious Test Clause predictably collide with Obergefell v. Hodges in Eastern Kentucky.
Walker, Texas Lawsuit
What happens when a fraternal organization, dedicated to commemorating Confederate veterans of the U.S. Civil War, declares “all in” before the U.S. Supreme Court, in a case where there appear to be two directly controlling yet contradictory cases and the ideological alignments of the Justices are apparently inverted? Burt Likko breaks down today’s license plate case.
I Unequivocally Support the Right to Speech I Support the Right To
James Hanley critiques the “good judgement” pseudo-defense of free speech.
Why Do You Care About Free Speech?
It’s suddenly very fashionable to be a strident advocate of free speech, without giving a lot of thought into why free speech is worthy of advocacy. Burt Likko dares to offer five reasons, which surely won’t be controversial at all.
For What It’s Worth, I Kind of Hate All of Y’all
James Hanley reacts to reports of an academic using a rather strong word about Republicans.
The Ongoing Vitality of Free Speech in the United States
There’s never been a better time to say things no one objects to.
First Monday 2014
Same cast, brand new season! Burt Likko offers a look at some of the high points of the Supreme Court’s docket for the 2014-2015 Term.
Free Speech Does Not Require Civility (Updated)
James Hanley civilly argues that Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks is not wrong to encourage civility, but he is dangerously wrong to elevate civility above freedom of speech.
2013-2014 Term Recap (Save Two)
It’s the close of the term, and here’s a recap of the major cases from SCOTUS this year. Some surprising results. Some, not so much. Alsotoo: we’re waiting until Monday for the Hobby Lobby and Harris decisions.
In My Opinion’s Wake
Burt Likko thinks that Citizens United and McCutcheon were correctly decided. But how can he square that conclusion with his recent Ordinary Court opinion?
Come Pop My Bubble
When I read this article by Mark Adomanis in Forbes online, I find myself a bit confused. Adomanis mantains that there is a significant strain of American conservatism that looks at l’affaire d’Pussy Riot in Russia and...
Shame On Russia
Three of the members of Russian punk rock collective Pussy Riot have been found guilty of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” and sentenced to two years of labor in a corrective institution, with credit...
Stop Censorship, Stop ACTA
I have a primer up at Forbes on a little known trade agreement, ACTA, which does all the bad stuff that SOPA threatened to do, only worse. Masked as an anti-counterfeiting treaty, ACTA threatens...
Free Speech and Killing Kittens
Here’s a provocative post from Stanley Fish: To anyone who has been following First Amendment jurisprudence in the past 40 or 50 years, the recent Supreme Court decision (United States v. Stevens, April 20)...
Politics over Freedom, Ctd
Via Doug Mataconis, Andrew Coulson finds yet another one of those “little incidents” that add up to a pattern of choosing politics over respect for freedoms:
The President’s War on Fox
Transplanted Lawyer has the first – and thus far, only – truly sane take I’ve seen on the matter. I was thinking about writing a post on this subject, but T.L.’s post says all...
