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Bowling Green State Student Charged with Defacing Pro-Life Center

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Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio charged Durant with a “federal misdemeanor charge under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.”

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Policing Pronouns: How “Misgendering” is Becoming the New Battleground Over Discrimination

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In Ohio, Shawnee State University Professor Nicholas Meriwether, won a major appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit which reversed a lower court that initially upheld his punishment for using a student’s designated pronoun choices.

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Legal scholars urge Senate to reject Trump First Amendment impeachment defense

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A letter signed by 144 constitutional law scholars and circulated Friday characterizes as “legally frivolous” ex-President Donald Trump’s First Amendment -based defense in his impeachment trial slated to start in the US Senate on February 8.

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Democratic Governor Calls For Criminalizing “Lying” About Election Results

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” He would make such comments a gross misdemeanor subject to incarceration. Such a criminal law would be ripe for abuse and would create a chilling effect that would be positively glacial. Indeed, this seems like an effort to evade the constitutional limits placed on incitement crimes by the courts. 6th insurrection.”

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“The First Amendment Does Not Apply”: A Response To The Letter Of Scholars In Rejecting Trump Arguments Under The First Amendment

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Since there is not even a requirement that a high crime and misdemeanor be an actual crime, few argue that there is a categorical bar on the use of speech for the basis of impeachment under the First Amendment. 6 th constitutes actual incitement to insurrection. Ohio which are ultimately First Amendment cases.

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No, Justice Thomas Did Not Commit an Impeachable Offense

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” In modern American politics, it often seems like the only tool is impeachment and every controversy instantly becomes a high crime and misdemeanor. Bush’s victory over Democratic challenger John Kerry in the state of Ohio. It is often said that “if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”