Freedom of Speech
Freedom of speech is the Constitutional right to communicate one’s opinions and ideas, using one’s body and property to anyone who is willing to receive them.
Current Constitutional Issues – Electoral College, Military Draft and the First Amendment
The Electoral College, the military draft and the First Amendment – with the increasingly polemic state of our political environment, the parties are looking for new ways to get to their political goals. One recent dimension of this is the parties’ efforts to...
Can You Speak Freely Online? Courtney Love, Defamation and the First Amendment
Opinion or Defamation? A while back, news reports indicated that musician Courtney Love was stuck paying $430,000 plus interest to a designer about whom she had unkind words on MySpace and Twitter. That’s an expensive tweet. Ms. Love stated things such as that her...
Stare Decisis – Precedent Is Binding For Thee But Not For Me
As the Senate considered the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, many were concerned that an apparently conservative judge replaced Justice Kennedy, who is considered a centrist “swing vote” on the Court. In particular, they accused Judge...