http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/us/study-challenges- supreme-courts-image-as-defender-of-free-speech.html Read this article and answer the questions: Leading scholars have called the Roberts court: What do you think the article mean by “free speech slam- dunks”? Which cases are they referring to? Floyd Abrams comments that this Supreme Court is highly protective of “unpopular speech, distasteful speech.” What do you think he means by this? Include one example of unpopular speech. The end of the article suggests that Chief Justice Roberts himself is highly interested in free speech. Where does it get this idea? (Which statistics does the NYT use?)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/us/study-challenges-supreme-courts-image-as-defender-of-free-speech.htmlRead
this article and answer the questions:Leading scholars have called
the Roberts court:What do you think the article mean by free speech
slam-dunks? Which cases arethey referring to?Floyd Abrams comments
that this Supreme Court is highly protective of unpopularspeech,
distasteful speech. What do you think he means by this? Include
oneexample of unpopular speech.The end of the article suggests that
Chief Justice Roberts himself is highly interestedin free speech.
Where does it get this idea? (Which statistics does the NYT
use?)
