Showing posts with label First Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label First Amendment. Show all posts
Experts Urge Congress To Protect Free Speech On Campus
by Robert Davis Edelman. A panel of activists condemned college campus speech regulations Tuesday during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice hearing. Led by Greg Lukianoff, president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the panel issued indictments of so-called ... MORE
Mallory Millett: Why I Love 'Hate Speech'
I love Pamela Geller. I have known and loved her for years. She is a great American! If only everyone who has the honor of calling himself American could grow courage like hers we would be un-terrorizable as a nation. Pamela gets that we are at war and stands as an example for those of us who have lost our way. Many of you under fifty have ... MOREWarren Beatty: Is The End Of Free Speech Near?
Want hate speech laws? Go to hell. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states (in part): "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech[.]" Regarding free speech, the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1964, with unanimity, said: "... we consider this case [NEW YORK TIMES CO. v. SULLIVAN, 376 U.S. 254] against the background of a ... MORENational Contempt For 1st Amendment: 51% Of Democrats & 37% Of Republicans Want “Hate Speech” To Be A Crime
Enough to make lady liberty cry. Since 1994 people convicted of federal crimes motivated by the 'actual or perceived' identity of victims
have faced tougher sentences. Many other states had passed 'hate crime'
statutes in earlier years, and in recent years many states have been
adopting laws which make crimes motivated by the victim's ... MORE
Pamela Geller’s Critics Are Proving Her Point
by David French. Let’s be clear: The great freak-out over Pamela Geller’s “draw Muhammad” contest isn’t about love for Islam or for robust and respectful religious pluralism. Indeed, many of those expressing anguish over blasphemy against Islam show no such concern over even the most vile attacks on the Christian faith. Beyond that, they’re ... MOREFederal Court Strikes Down 'No-Speech Zone' That Let Deputies Confiscate Political Signs On Private Property
by Nick Sibilla. A small business owner who had his political signs confiscated by the government won a First Amendment lawsuit last month in federal court. John Russell owns an auto body shop in Cold Spring, Ky., not far from Cincinnati. He allowed the candidates he supported—both Democrats and Republicans—to put up political signs on his ... MORERich Lowry: Why Won’t Pamela Geller Shut Up?
Real hate speech is shut up or I'll kill you. How dare Pamela Geller get targeted by terrorists bent on committing mass murder. That’s been the reaction of a portion of the opinion elite to news that Geller’s “draw Muhammad” contest in Garland, Texas, was (unsuccessfully) assaulted by two heavily armed Muslim men in an attack the ... MOREWalter E Williams: Some Thoughts And Questions
What's the true test of one's commitment to free speech? It does not come when he permits people to be free to say or publish ideas with which he agrees. Not by a long shot. The true test of one's commitment to free speech comes when he permits others to say and publish ideas he deems offensive. In March, a video surfaced of ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: Shooting Themselves In The Foot
Next time, consult the Constitution. The turmoil over the efforts by the State of Indiana to make lawful the decisions by operators of public accommodations to decline their services based on their stated religious views has died down because the legislature amended the offending parts of its legislation so that the new law prohibits denying services ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Indiana And The Constitution
Clarifying the law of the land. The Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2015 is constitutionally infirm and legally troublesome. The circuitous constitutional route that brought about this statute began in 1990 when the Supreme Court ruled that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment may not be used as a defense to violating the ... MOREUnited States Supreme Court Refuses To Protect The Right Of Students To Wear American Flag T-Shirts To School
High Court rules against right of free expression. The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a case in which California public school students were prohibited from wearing American flag t-shirts to school, allegedly out of a fear that it might be disruptive. In refusing to hear the appeal without giving any reason for the decision, the Supreme ... MORETim Dunkin: Bake Us A Cake Or We'll Murder Your Children
Modern liberalism is fundamentally illiberal. The evidences for this can be clearly seen all around us. There are hardly any basic areas of the liberty of the individual which today's progressives – in both parties – haven't trampled in their on-going efforts to destroy America That Was and replace it with a progressive utopian version in which individual ... MORERobby Soave: Frat Brothers Make Execrable Racist Statements, America Forgets The First Amendment
Intolerance is all the rage at college campuses. Outrage over racist chanting at a Sigma Alpha Epsilon event at the University of Oklahoma is spilling over to other campuses, prompting concerns about systemic racism at that fraternal organization and within college Greek life as a whole. At the same time, lots of people who should know ... MORE
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