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In 1988, Larry Flynt fought for our constitutional right to parody public figures-to fabricate stories about ministers engaging in a drunken incestuous rendezvous with their mothers in outhouses, so long as it did not intend "actual malice." A decade later, Flynt is back at the First Amendment dartboard, this...
In Buckley v. Valeo, the Court ruled the campaign finance limits were constitutionally suspect because donations are a form of speech that under the First Amendment cannot be abridged. If the Court applies the same money-equals-speech logic to the Southworth case, the dissenters will probably win their grievance...
Hirabayashi's battle began after he cited the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits seizure of property and violation of rights without due process of law. He wrote a letter of protest and refused to relocate.
For example, he said, he would support a constitutional amendment banning abortion as a "matter of principle," although he prefers returning the decision to the states.
In a bill that some say violates First Amendment protections of free speech, State Rep. Benjamin Swan (D-Springfield) has proposed that sworn public officials be punished for using derogatory language about any group.