Freedom of Speech
Under the latest Supreme Court rulings, which of the following types of speech is NOT covered by the First Amendment?
Correct Answer
In the 1992 case of R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, the Supreme Court ruled that a law banning cross burning and Nazi swastikas violated the right to free speech, as long as these actions weren’t accompanied by “threats of violence.” In 1969 and 1972, the Supreme Court ruled that students don’t “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate” and “the vigilant protection of constitutional freedoms is nowhere more vital than in the community of American schools.” In the 1969 case of Brandenburg v. Ohio, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that “the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press” don’t cover “advocacy” that is “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.” Likewise, the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that threats of violence and intimidation aren’t covered by the First Amendment.
“Justice is Blind”
This is the latest In Fact. Click the left arrow for earlier ones.U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D–CA) claims that Joe Biden’s Department of Justice treated “Donald Trump like any other American citizen, neither better nor worse, applying the rule of law to him as they would apply it to any other.”
IN FACT, Biden’s DOJ targeted Trump, his supporters, and conservatives with unconstitutional and illegal double-standards. This includes but isn’t limited to the following:
- Biden’s DOJ prosecuted Trump for carrying out “official actions” within his “conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority” (struck down 6–3 by the Supreme Court).
- Biden’s DOJ prosecuted Trump for citing data from a Ph.D.-vetted study published by Just Facts and obtained an indictment from a grand jury drawn from a D.C.-based jury pool where 92% of the population voted for Biden.
- Biden’s DOJ prosecuted more than a hundred J6 protestors by misapplying a law about “obstructing an official proceeding” while simultaneously praising Democrat protestors who did the same (struck down 6–3 by the Supreme Court).
- Biden’s DOJ raided the home of Donald Trump and prosecuted him for having classified documents while Joe Biden had classified documents in his home but wasn’t charged because he was an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
- Biden’s DOJ raided the home of a pro-lifer and prosecuted him for shoving an abortion clinic worker who was harassing one of his children (charges dismissed by a jury after less than an hour of deliberation).