Word: free-speech
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...abortion shouldn't be the only issue. What does Souter think about the recent erosion of the Fourth Amendment, which protects citizens from wrongful search and seizure? How will he rule on free-speech cases...
Thus Governor Buddy Roemer inherited some worthy opportunities for the veto. He used it on the abortion ban last week only days after thumbing down the lewd-lyrics law on the ground that it violated free-speech protections. The legislators may return to the capital Aug. 18 to consider whether to override the vetoes...
...Kimberlin, who has been transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution in Memphis, is suing Quinlan, the Bureau of Prisons and a former Justice Department spokesman -- Loye Miller -- in federal court, alleging that in keeping him quiet they violated his free-speech rights. The prison bureau insists that the special detention was in line with standard policy governing prisoner contacts with news media. As for Quayle and pot, press secretary David Beckwith declared, "The Vice President has never used marijuana or, to his knowledge, met Brett Kimberlin...
WHEN President Derek C. Bok told the Faculty in February that Harvard's free-speech policy should not deviate from the First Amendment, he implied that the University had a choice. It could choose to go the way of Michigan, Emory and Wisconsin and ban offensive speech or it could choose to sink or swim with the Constitution...
...hard way, when he suspended 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney last month for allegedly making offensive remarks about blacks and homosexuals. The uproar over the suspension was instant and unrelenting. Thousands of complaints from viewers poured in to CBS. Press critics chided the network for trampling on Rooney's free-speech rights. CBS colleagues, most notably 60 Minutes executive producer Don Hewitt, lobbied on Rooney's behalf...