SCOTUSblog previews tomorrow's oral argument in Pleasant Grove City, et al., v. Summum . Will the Justices’ vision be fogged by a cloud of potential horribles? The Solicitor General’s brief well illustrates this argument: “U…
23/6 has a few excerpts from the oral argument in FCC v. Fox Television Stations : Justice Scalia : The issue at hand is not whether stations can broadcast words like "freak" or "stuff," but whether children …
Justice Stevens asked yesterday in the argument about whether the FCC could fine a broadcaster for allowing a "fleeting expletive" to go out over the airwaves. Here 's the NYT account of the argument, with the usual…
The college did not appreciate his on-line confession of a crime. Here 's Phil Busse's Huffington post item, called "Confessions of a Lawn Sign Stealer": [T]he oversized 4 x 8 foot mini-billboard in front of the…
And if their cars have political bumper stickers, they can't park them in campus lots! ADDED: I understand the focus on bumper stickers. Too much transparency if the faculty parking lot has rows and rows of Obama stickers.
About that blogger who got Bill Clinton to call Todd Purdum a "scumbag"... and 2,500 other blogger-reporters boosted by Huffington Post. Mayhill Fowler says she never planned to ask Bill Clinton the question that unleas…
Canada's shame. ADDED: Is this post too short? Sorry, the free speech issue is too blatantly obvious for me to have anything more to say. The substance of Steyn's opinion is irrelevant. Canada should be ashamed that its l…
So wrote Zechariah Chaffee Jr. — quoted last Friday by Chief Justice John Roberts at the opening of the Newseum , a museum dedicated to journalism and the First Amendment. A wild animal in our midst, eh? I hope that doesn't …
Instapundit links to this Denver Post story about 2 male students who distributed a parody — "The Monthly Bag" — of the feminist newsletter — "The Monthly Rag." Here 's a PDF of the 1-page flier (via Ace…
Video accessible from the C-Span front page . He's talking to students at Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, VA. ADDED: A little simulblogging: Scalia tells the kids he has 28 grandchildren. I laughed at about 5:40, …
How incredibly pathetic. It's a comedy routine, using exaggerated language, insulting Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro in a style similar to the way Kathy Griffin insults Hollywood celebrities. Doesn't Air America k…
Listen to your own inner citizen First Amendment voice. This is America. Just like every other citizen, you have a right to run. Whenever you like. For as long as you like. Sayeth Ralph Nader. ADDED: He's talking to Hillary C…
A conservative group sponsors something it calls "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" on campus and feels the hate. For conservatives, apparently. But whoever hates the conservatives doesn't mind making the Muslim stude…
So says the ACLU lawyer for the artist Ed (Gonzo) Stross: Stross is fighting a 30-day jail sentence for violating a city sign ordinance for exposing Eve’s breast and painting the word "Love" in his variation of Michelan…
Imus sued and got $20 million from CBS. Now, the basketball players are filing their lawsuits: Today's suit refers to terms used by Imus April 4 -- including referring to women on the team as "nappy headed" -- as &q…
Let me note that Patterico didn't like what I said about the AutoAdmit case, but then he worried that he was too harsh, so he wrote a post saying he liked what I said in that post about Glenn Greenwald... except the part th…
WaPo reports that Justice Alito said this when asked "'where's the line' on what can be posted on the Internet": "I would be reluctant to support restrictions on what people could say." Was the qu…
Obama Girl is our new glimpse into the way independent YouTube videos are going to transform campaign advertising: According to Jake Tapper, the video "poke[s] racy fun at the way some voters have responded viscerally to bo…
Eugene Volokh has more on the AutoAdmit case, noting the risks plaintiffs take when they sue. First, the lawsuit calls more attention to the scurrilous comments. Eugene notes, though, it's unlikely anyone hearing the AutoAdm…