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

JonathanTurley

Even with the Supreme Court’s allowance for the criminalization of “fighting words” in cases like Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire , 315 U.S. National Ass’n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button, 371 U.S. 415, 445 (1963). 568, 572 (1942), the Court has sharply abridged the application that exception.

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