Why aren’t ‘fighting words’ free speech?
"We're not going to give in to terrorism," Vice President J.D. Vance declared after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot Minneapolis protester Renée Good in January. Vance averred…
Tag: Obscenity
Oklahoma’s obscenity bait and switch could ban pride parades and public drag shows
Oklahoma lawmakers are suggesting that a new state law aimed at "adult performances" means municipalities must predict what sorts of events might become obscene and preemptively prohibit them. It's a clear…
Texas can’t force book vendors to rate books according to sexual content, district court decides
In a moral panic over allegedly damagingly filthy content in books that schoolchildren could access, Texas passed a law in 2023 known as the Restricting Explicit and Adult-Designated Educational Resources (READER) Act.…
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