The U.S. Supreme Court decided four cases today, reducing the number of pending cases to eight (I expect four on Friday, and the last four on Monday). The much anticipated “cussing cheerleader” case was decided in her favor, consistent with the Court’s previous First Amendment free speech precedents, i.e., Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School … Read more
Karoli Kuns at CrooksAndLiars blog reports, Activists Arrested Protesting Filibuster In Arizona: Arizona activists have gathered at Kyrsten Sinema’s office to send her a very strong message: Ditch the filibuster and ditch it now. Because they are outside in the Arizona desert sun marching at the building her office occupies, exercising their First Amendment rights, … Read more
“The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” And yet First Amendment absolutists would make it so, disdaining Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ recognition that there are limitations to the freedom of speech: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.” Social … Read more
There has been a nationwide effort by Republicans to criminalize Black Lives Matter protestors, but not the white supremacist MAGA/QAnon domestic terrorists who engaged in a seditious insurrection against the Capitol on January 6, and stormed at least one state capitol building in Michigan last year as a rehearsal. Back in February I told you … Read more
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has lost his mind over corporate accountability, corporations speaking out in favor of voting rights in the wake of GQP Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression laws being enacted by state legislatures around the country based upon Donald Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen from him. McConnell is starting … Read more