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Fourth Circuit Overturns Conviction Of Retired Air Force Colonel For Using Racial Slur

JonathanTurley

In a major but likely controversial victory for free speech, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned the conviction of a retired Air Force Colonel for using a racial epithet at the shoe store on the Marine base at Quantico in Virginia. New Hampshire , 315 U.S. Winston , 199 S.E.2d 2d 724, 726 (Va.

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Washington School Triggers Free Speech Fight Over Order to RemoveBlue Lives Matter

JonathanTurley

36, 49–51 (1961) : Throughout its history this Court has consistently recognized at least two ways in which constitutionally protected freedom of speech is narrower than an unlimited license to talk. On the one hand, certain forms of speech, or speech in certain contexts, has been considered outside the scope of constitutional protection.

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