Please keep in mind there will be an opportunity for q a after the remarks from our speaker. I want to ask you to line up at the mics here and here in order to ask questions. Im tom hungar and i have the honor to introduce todays speaker who will be regaling us with his always fascinating insights on the Supreme Courts just completed term. It was certainly an eventful term, so there should be no shortage of fascinating material. For example, as you know chief justice i mean roberts continued his solemnonic approach to controversial cases, splitting the baby and sending mixed messages in ways that left everyone unhappy in one way or another. One thing that has become Crystal Clear this term is that for good or ill the court now truly deserves its moniker. And thats due in large part to perhaps the single most significant event of the term, the october 6 confirmation of the courts Newest Supreme Court justice, brett kavanaugh. Justice kavanaugh has already begun to chart a course of prin
Society annual Supreme Court line up. Its great to see such a robust gathering for this event. Please keep in mind there will be an opportunity for q a after the remarks from our speaker. I want to ask you to line up at the mics here and here in order to ask questions. Im tom hungar and i have the honor to introduce todays speaker who will be regaling us with his always fascinating insights on the Supreme Courts just completed term. It was certainly an eventful term, so there should be no shortage of fascinating material. For example, as you know chief justice i mean roberts continued his solemnonic approach to controversial cases, splitting the baby and sending mixed messages in ways that left everyone unhappy in one way or another. One thing that has become Crystal Clear this term is that for good or ill the court now truly deserves its moniker. And thats due in large part to perhaps the single most significant event of the term, the october 6 confirmation of the courts newest Suprem
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We will hear argument first this morning in case 22277, moody versus netchoice. Mr. Whitaker . Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. Internet platforms today control the way millions of americans communicate with each other and with the world. Platforms achieve that success by marketing themselves as neutral forums for free speech. Now that they host the communications of billions of users, they sing a very different tune. They now say they are in fact editors of their users speech, rather like a newspaper. They contend they possess a broad First Amendment right to censor anything they host on their sites, even when doing so contradict their own representations to consumers. But the design of the First Amendment is to prevent the suppression of speech, not to enable it. That is why the Telephone Company and Delivery Service has no first moment right to use their services as a chokepoint to silence those they disfavor. Broadly facilitating communication in that way is conduct,
We will hear argument first this morning in case 22277, moody versus netchoice. Mr. Whitaker . Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. Internet platforms today control the way millions of americans communicate with each other and with the world. Platforms achieve that success by marketing themselves as neutral forums for free speech. Now that they host the communications of billions of users, they sing a very different tune. They now say they are in fact editors of their users speech, rather like a newspaper. They contend they possess a broad First Amendment right to censor anything they host on their sites, even when doing so contradict their own representations to consumers. But the design of the First Amendment is to prevent the suppression of speech, not to enable it. That is why the Telephone Company and Delivery Service has no first moment right to use their services as a chokepoint to silence those they disfavor. Broadly facilitating communication in that way is conduct,