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The World According To Clarence Thomas And Ayn Rand
The Los Angeles Times highlights some of Justice Clarence Thomas’s more extreme solo opinions, most of which seem to be rooted in this: every year Thomas has his new clerks come to his home to watch a...
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Ruling: No Corporate Donations For Russell Pearce In Arizona Recall Election
Senate President Russell Pearce will not be able to get financial help from corporations to keep him in office, at least not directly. In a formal legal opinion, state Solicitor General David Cole...
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“No Passive Resistence”: GOP’s War On Free Speech Intensifies
Dems have been faulted by conservative journalists for excessive political hyperbole in using the term “war on” in connection with GOP campaigns against unions, young voters, people of color,...
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“An Imagined Privilege”: Mitch McConnell’s Distorted View Of Free Speech
A newspaper will make you sign your name to a letter-to-the-editor so that you take ownership of the content and consequences of your 250-word rant against the injustices of the age. But when...
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“But Not For Statutory Rights”: Gun Nuts Ignore The First Amendment To...
Protect the Second Amendment, screw the First! Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition calling for British CNN host Piers Morgan to be deported from the United States over his gun control...
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“All Voices Should Be Heard”: The Government Shutdown Shows Contribution...
The Supreme Court must uphold the overall contribution limit in McCutcheon v. FEC, and certainly should not consider striking the base limits. The Supreme Court has never struck down a federal...
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“State-Imposed Ideological Barriers”: Judge Strikes Down North Carolina’s...
Doctors in North Carolina are no longer required to display and describe ultrasound images to their patients before proceeding with an abortion procedure, thanks to a federal judge’s ruling on Friday...
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“Don’t Cry For Condi!”: Why Students Were Right To Scuttle Her Commencement...
As sincerely as I wish everyone involved with the George W. Bush administration would just go away — or at least agree to only appear in the public eye in brief, tweet-size increments — I must admit...
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“Snyder’s Insulting Redskins Logic”: Irrational Insistance That Native...
Fear not for the future of free speech after the Washington Redskins’ trademark fight. The legal dividend could be more free speech, not less. A lot of my fellow First Amendment advocates sound nervous...
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“It Will Be Ugly, And It Will Escalate”: Buffer Zones, Clinic Escorting, And...
The Supreme Court struck down the Massachusetts “buffer zone” law — which barred antiabortion protests immediately outside clinics. Justice Scalia portrayed the law as hindering ‘sidewalk counselors’...
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“Donors Before Constituents”: The First Amendment, According To Mitch McConnell
Have you heard that Senate Democrats are working this week to repeal free speech? I did, yesterday morning, from Mitch McConnell. Have you heard that Democrats are going to go out and “muzzle” pastors...
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“If Money Is Speech And Speech Is Freedom…”: Those With Less Money Get Less...
If money is speech and speech is freedom, then it follows that those who have more money will have more freedom. This includes the freedom to determine who gets to vote, the freedom to dictate how much...
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“Shouldn’t Be The Victim’s Responsibility”: If Tech Companies Wanted To End...
If someone posted a death threat to your Facebook page, you’d likely be afraid. If the person posting was your husband – a man you had a restraining order against, a man who wrote that he was “not...
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“Perpetuating Itself”: America’s War Machine Sells Fear And Loathing Beyond...
The War Machine is the violent nexus of military and economic forces that grinds us up to perpetuate itself. With politicians of all stripes in its pockets and buoyed by lobbyists, the War Machine is...
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“Why We Fight”: The Right And Wrong Reasons For Outrage
That was an incredibly moving scene in Paris yesterday, the largest civilian mobilization in French history, which is quite a history. We must hope that the humanist (an important word to which we’ll...
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“Sometimes, It’s Not Entirely About Us”: A Note On Criticism Of Obama For Not...
The march in Paris yesterday expressing solidarity in the wake of the terrorist attack on the office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was an inspiring sight, with somewhere between one and two...
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“Useful Idiots”: Why The Violent Extremists Welcome Attacks On Islam
Whenever an act of horrific terror enrages the West, a predictable second act ensues. Furious commentators and activists on the right erupt with blanket denunciations of Islam, Muslims, and their...
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“Higher Courts Let Prosecutors Get Away With Murder”: Supreme Courts Bear...
For anyone studying the bubbling issue of prosecutor misconduct, the LAT states—Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas—form a good lab. March alone brewed up: —belated charges against a prosecutor in Texas,...
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“If You’re Scratching Your Head, You’re Not Alone”: Rubio Is Confused About...
Marco Rubio went on television with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody and suggested that Christianity is on the verge of being labeled “hate speech.” If you’re scratching your head,...
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“How Much ‘Free Speech’ Can You Buy?”: Citizens United Produced A Platinum...
In today’s so-called “democratic” election process, Big Money doesn’t talk, it roars — usually drowning out the people’s voice. Bizarrely, the Supreme Court decreed in its 2010 Citizens United ruling...
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