Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On? thenation.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thenation.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Many people who came of age in the 1950s and 60s view the Supreme Court as a force for good when it comes to race. But the court has often been the most anti-progressive branch of the federal government.
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Did You Know?: Twitter and Freedom of Speech
“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech,” the Constitution states.
But did their Jan. 8 decision violate the First Amendment in the first place?
On Jan. 8, Twitter permanently suspended the account of former President Donald Trump following the Capitol riots on Jan. 6 “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
Twitter users, including Donald Trump Jr., saw the ban as an attack on First Amendment.
“Free Speech Is Under Attack! Censorship is happening like NEVER before! Don’t let them silence us,” he tweeted.
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For the first time since Thomas Jefferson, Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited nonsensical and irrelevant
ad hominem attacks to be both spoken on the floor of the House and to be entered into the permanent congressional record. Sadly, her invitation was eagerly accepted. Freshman Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., called President Trump “a white supremacist president,” and “white supremacist-in-chief,” while Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., called him “racist-in-chief.”
How did we get to this disgraceful state of affairs? The answer goes back to 1942.
Walter Chaplinsky was a Jehovah’s Witness street preacher holding forth in downtown Rochester, New Hampshire. His message for the day was a general screed against organized religion. As the streets were blocked and the turmoil grew, authorities arrived to restore order. At this point, Chaplinsky turned his ire to the town marshal saying, “You are a G-d d–ned racketeer,” and “a d–ned fascist.”