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1/2: #Bestof2022: The First Amendment in question. 1/2: #SCOTUS: Freedom of speech by Justice Robert Jackson, 1943. Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Caption: "The Society for the Suppression of Blasphemous Literature proposes to get up cases against Professors Huxley and Tyndall, Herbert Spencer, and others who, by their writings have sown widespread unbelief, and in some cases rank atheism"

1/2: #Bestof2022: The First Amendment in question. 1/2: #SCOTUS: Freedom of speech by Justice Robert Jackson, 1943. Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution.

https://www.hoover.org/research/can-artistic-freedom-survive-state-coercion

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0:30.4

This is CBSI in the world.

0:34.4

I'm John Batchford.

0:36.2

The Supreme Court, a decision about freedom of speech

0:39.8

and the decision is pending.

0:41.8

So I welcome Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, a senior fellow

0:46.4

cheaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago,

0:49.7

writing and defining ideas about a case that is before the court now.

0:53.9

However, we need about freedom of speech.

0:56.5

We need to begin with a Supreme Court decision from many decades ago,

1:01.4

argued March of 43, decided June of 43,

1:05.2

with just Mr. Justice Robert Jackson delivering the opinion of the court.

1:10.7

It had to do with a school district and whether or not it was a powerful enough

1:17.7

to compel speech by students who belonged to the Jehovah's Witnesses.

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