Opinion: Vance is right: Walz is wrong about free speech

Schenck and Baer called on their fellow citizens not to submit to intimidation and to assert your rights. They argued, If you do not assert and support your rights, you are helping to deny or disparage rights which it is the solemn duty of all citizens and residents of the United States to retain. They also described the military draft as involuntary servitude.

Holmes used his “fire in a theater” line to justify the abusive conviction and incarceration. At the House hearing, when I was trying to explain that the justice later walked away from the line and Schenck was effectively overturned in 1969 in Brandenburg v. Ohio, Goldman cut me off and said,  We don t need a law class here.

In the vice presidential debate, Walz showed that he and other Democratic leaders most certainly do need a class in First Amendment law.

via www.usatoday.com

Prof. Turley is correct, as usual. Unfortunately, it’s not just legislators who need a law class; so do law students. And not just in the free speech clause. I’m reminded of some sort of representative of the trans- students who came to excoriate me on my extremely mild joke about Methodists and gay persons on this blog. Her scoffing at my citing the First Amendment and religious freedom chilled me. She evidently did not like either. The First Amendment is my favorite amendment and of necessity my second is the Second.