Theyre doing hard work cleaning up a cluttered closet to the First Amendment where lower courts are in disagreement and everyone is a little bit at sea. The first of these, a case involving the socalled truth rats doctrine. There is a lot of speech protected by the First Amendment, there is a lot of speech that is not protected by the First Amendment and this is a question of when is threatening language protected and when is it not protected . The question is in order to be unprotected by the First Amendment, does the speaker have to have intended to threaten someone . Or is it enough if a reasonable person would think this was threatening language . Do you have a subjective standard when you ask about the state of mind of the speaker or do you ask what an objective listener would take away . This is not about whether you intend to carry out the threat or not. That is not necessary. Do you have to have intended to make someone feel threatened . This case involves a man the university
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Thomas well start right back at 1 00. Thomas im a Research Fellow here at the cato Institutes Center for constitutional studies and managing editor of the cato review. I know how insanely cooperative and timely and patient for them to make it happen. Thanks everyone that trevor named and thanked in the First Amendment. We have a First Amendment panel at constitutional day. Its smack dab at the wheelhouse here at the levy center. This year was unusually light in one respect in i believe there was one on First Amendment speech and youll hear professor armijo speak about that. We have one case on First Amendment speech. One case on First Amendment religion clawses. And two cases on clauses. And two cases on the states doctrine which arguably touches on many of the same values as the freedom of speech and the press. Namely, the values of transparency and the open marketplace of ideas. On First Amendment speech, youll hear about a case that might have first seemed to concern municipal fine