A 6-3 court’s impact. The Conversation explains how a decidedly conservative
Supreme Court, realigned by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, could transform the United States—shifting protection of civil rights from the court to local governments but ramping up First Amendment protection of religious rights.
■ Sen. Mitt Romney’s decision to support a quick vote on President Trump’s choice seems to put all the pieces in place for making that court a reality.
■ Sen. Mitt Romney’s decision to support a quick vote on President Trump’s choice seems to put all the pieces in place for making that court a reality.
■ Washington University and University of Chicago law professors in The New York Times: “If Justice Ginsburg, who had the most secular voting record of any justice since 1953, is replaced with a religious conservative … the court’s jurisprudence will veer even farther from the values she brought to the law.” (Photo: Tim Brown.)
■ A University of Baltimore law prof: Ginsburg could be surprisingly conservative.
Trump’s ‘beautiful sight.’ MSNBC accuses the president of endangering journalists by speaking glowingly to a rally about the time one of the channel’s anchors was shot with a rubber bullet during a peaceful Minneapolis protest of police violence.
■ CNN’s Brian Stelter: “One of the worst things he’s ever said.”
■ A second Los Angeles journalist accuses county police of violating First Amendment rights.
■ CNN’s Brian Stelter: “One of the worst things he’s ever said.”
■ A second Los Angeles journalist accuses county police of violating First Amendment rights.
‘The weapons of 1791.’ Free Speech Center director Ken Paulson, speaking at a panel discussion on racial protests and the First Amendment: “We have never been down this road before, but I’m encouraged that a nation, when faced with injustice, can … put down their phones, pick up a sign and raise their voices in protest.”
■ Bloomberg’s Noah Feldman on reports that U.S. Attorney General William Barr has suggested protesters be charged with sedition: “It’s the sort of crime that weak governments enforce against their citizens when the government is facing an existential threat—or thinks it is.”
■ Bloomberg’s Noah Feldman on reports that U.S. Attorney General William Barr has suggested protesters be charged with sedition: “It’s the sort of crime that weak governments enforce against their citizens when the government is facing an existential threat—or thinks it is.”
■ History.com looks back at the “egregious” origins of the Sedition and Espionage Acts.
■ An excerpt from journalist and author Ellis Cose’ new book, The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America: “We live in a world where it is far from clear that the answer to bad speech is more speech.”
■ An excerpt from journalist and author Ellis Cose’ new book, The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America: “We live in a world where it is far from clear that the answer to bad speech is more speech.”
WeChat spat. A federal judge has preliminarily blocked the Trump administration’s move to ban the Chinese-born social messaging-and-more app in the U.S. …
■ … which is surprisingly welcome news for the U.S. real estate biz.
‘Journalism heroes for the pandemic.’ The Washington Post’s Elahe Izadi hails college newspapers, “more energized than ever, producing essential work from the center of the nation’s newest coronavirus hot spots.”
■ Two student paper editors-in-chief talked to NPR about how COVID-19 “has changed almost everything about college.”
■ The Campus Legal Advisor newsletter’s counsel to college administrators on how to manage student demonstrations in the pandemic: “Let them protest,” but “use time, place, and manner restrictions.”
