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"When the government of the United States of America claims the authority to ban books because of their political speech," says Citizens United, " something has gone terribly wrong." A majority of the U.S. Supreme Court seems to agree.
Next week, for the second time, the court will hear oral arguments in Citizens United v. FEC, a case that poses the question of whether the Federal Election Commission violated the First Amendment when it prevented the conservative group from showing a highly critical documentary about Hillary Clinton on cable TV during the 2008 primary season. The court scheduled the...
Unfair, Unbalanced, but Free
Seriously how does any justice take the first amendment and not construct it so as to ensure that those in power will not prevent others from having a voice. WTF do they think electioneering campaigning is if not free speech. Free speech is not a lewd t-shirt, or vulgarity in public, where others are forced to observe or hear, but it is certainly one party communicating with another their ideas or...