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New Jersey Woman Triggers Free Speech Case With Profane Anti-Biden Signage

JonathanTurley

California in which it overturned the conviction of Paul Robert Cohen for the crime of disturbing the peace by wearing a jacket declaring “F**k the Draft” in a California courthouse. .” In 1971, the Supreme Court handed down Cohen v.

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How A Snap Impeachment Could Shatter Our Constitutional Balance

JonathanTurley

So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” The most obvious is the 1918 prosecution of socialist Eugene Debs, who spoke passionately against the draft in World War I and led figures like President Wilson to declare him a “traitor to his country.” The governing legal standard for violent speech is found in Brandenburg v.