A french court the charges against him are lives. And space x. Gets ready for what could be the 1st time a private Company Sends astronauts into orbit. And now the death of an African American in Police Custody has triggered new race protests in the u. S. Police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators calling for justice theres been widespread outrage after a video emerged showing an officer using his knee to pin the on armed man in minneapolis there are calls for the officers to Face Criminal Charges john hendren has this report let me tell you that this contains some images which viewers may find distressing. Protesters gathered by the hundreds to mark the death of another unarmed black man in Police Custody it happened a day after an all too familiar american seen with a black man pleads for help is he struggles to bring what you want to. Believe that the image on a minneapolis street the man cries out in pain a policemans knee on his neck. I. Know. You remember. George floyd accus
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Here we are viewed here we are. The first class went pretty well. We are being recorded for cspan. For the folks at cspan, i am university of Tennessee College of law professor glenn harlan reynolds. This is our standard law class for 2020 and we are talking about free speech, incitement, true threats and will get started on obscenity. We will be less socratic than usual because the cspan people asked me to be. Here is the textbook we are using, constitutional law, a good casebook. The first time i have used it so we are learning our way. It is going just fine. We have been talking about free speech, equal protection, race discrimination, gender and things like that. Now we are pivoting to a core part of the bill of rights, a different section about free speech. The framers valued free speech very highly. To the extent they talked about it, they saw it as mostly political, more than artistic or expressive. The interesting thing about the First Amendment is the courts did little with it
Heard, and to Learn Together the cases we have heard. We have developed a nice ritual together of beginning our by reciting the Inspiring Mission of the National Constitution center, which comes from the u. S. Bicentennial, which is when the National Constitution center was founded. Along with me. The National Constitutional center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis in order to andease awareness understanding of the constitution among the American People. Time ihe chills every recited. That is what we are doing together, in the spirit of learning. Thanks for engaging us in this experiment. Tom excited to welcome you talk about the remarkable arguments we just heard about whether or not the states of washington and colorado can pass to voteuiring electors for the president ial candidates whom they have been pledged to elect. Joining us to discuss this crucially important and deeply inter