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| Supreme Court’s Decision on Campaign Finance: A Win for Free Speech or a First Amendment Disaster? |
Devotéés of the First Amendment often think they are the ultimate authorities on what those few Delphic words barring Congress from making any law “abridging the freedom of speech” actually mean. But there is plenty of room for disagreement. What, for example, are the underlying purposes of the First Amendment freedom of speech; what kinds [...]
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Education funds’ fate in limbo
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The fate of an amendment that would take $2.8 million in education funds from Charlottesville and give it to Albemarle County next fiscal year remains a mystery as legislators work behind closed doors to finalize the state budget.
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Prop 8 will live to see another day
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I’d be remiss in my duties as a liberal blogger if I didn’t at least mention that the California Supreme Court ruled 6-1 yesterday that Proposition 8, the amendment banning same-sex marriage, was not unconstitutional, since it didn’t preclude same-sex couples from entering into civil unions. What’s more, the court held that marriages performed prior to Proposition 8’s passage were to [...]
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Commentary: Through a Lens Starkly
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Is it child pornography (and hence, unprotected by the First Amendment) when teenagers under the age of 18 take nude pictures of themselves? JoAnn Wypijewski offers her views on "sexting" and the recent arrests of three girls, ages 14 and 15, charged with taking pictures of themselves, nude or seminude; and three boys, 15, 16 [...]
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America’s little Pinochet
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Zachary Roth picks up on a particularly disturbing segment in Dick Cheney’s speech this afternoon:And when they see the American government caught up in arguments about interrogations, or whether foreign terrorists have constitutional rights, they don’t stand back in awe of our legal system and wonder whether they had misjudged us [...]
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