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#Bestof2023: FIRST AMENDMENT IS THE MUSCLE: #SCOTUS: Clarity needed on the First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Anti-Discrimination Laws. Richard Epstein, Hoover

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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#Bestof2023: FIRST AMENDMENT IS THE MUSCLE: #SCOTUS: Clarity needed on the First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Anti-Discrimination Laws. Richard Epstein, Hoover
https://www.hoover.org/research/freedom-speech-vs-antidiscrimination-laws
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Supreme Court oral arguments to be decided soon enough.

0:41.0

The case 303 created versus Hellenus.

0:44.0

This is an oral argument about a case in the future.

0:48.0

But Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, the senior fellow teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago.

0:55.0

Guides me to understand that this case is necessary because the lack of clarity of a previous similar case.

1:04.0

Masterpiece cake shop versus Colorado Civil Rights Commission 2018.

1:09.0

Leaves their unanswered questions about freedom of speech and discrimination.

1:16.0

Professor, a very good evening to you. Masterpiece cake shop, we begin there.

1:20.0

Justice Kennedy writes what you characterize as a wishy-washy opinion.

1:25.0

Does that become the basis for this new case to be decided is the lack of clarity in that case.

1:32.0

The reason the court took 303 created good evening to you.

1:36.0

Well, it's certainly one reason, but essentially what had happened in Masterpiece cake.

1:41.0

As you had this guy Jack Phillips and he essentially was a Christian and he told all of his customers.

1:48.0

That he would not make any cakes, which essentially offended description.

1:52.0

He was an artist. He was a religious person and he was a believer in freedom of expression.

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