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Case in Point: The Indispensable Right – Free Speech in an Age of Rage

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News, Politics

4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Hans’ guest is Prof Jonathan Turley, constitutional scholar, law professor, and well-known legal analyst on Fox News, to talk about censorship, attacks on the First Amendment, and his new book, “The Indispensable Right – Free Speech in an Age of Rage.” The classic movie review is of the 1940 screwball comedy about the newspaper business, “His […]

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0:00.0

Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.

0:04.0

Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court.

0:08.0

This is Hans von Spockowski, and this is Case in Point.

0:12.0

And our title today is The Indispensable Right, Free Speech in an Age of Rage.

0:17.0

And I will admit I stole that title from our guest today, Professor Jonathan Turley,

0:21.6

because that's the title of his new book.

0:24.6

From speech codes in our schools and universities that are teaching children, they don't

0:29.6

have a right to voice their opinions if they're controversial or might upset other students

0:36.6

or even worse their teachers

0:38.3

to the efforts during the prior administration

0:42.3

to use government agencies to coerce, intimidate,

0:46.3

and pressure social media platforms,

0:49.3

which are the news and communications channels of this century, to censor the opinions of Americans and

0:56.9

cancel their accounts. We are facing probably one of the biggest threats to the First Amendment

1:03.0

in our history, and that's what Jonathan Turley is here to talk about. He is a renowned

1:09.9

constitutional scholar. I'm sure you've seen him often on

1:13.4

Fox News, where he provides very biting, but very good legal analysis. But besides being a

1:21.7

college professor, he's also an advocate. He has represented many parties in cases. And in fact, you were in the Clinton impeachment

1:30.9

trial, right? And actually, I think you were strange coincidence. You were defense counsel for the

1:39.0

last successful impeachment trial in the Senate of a federal judge, Judge Porteus, correct?

1:46.0

And I was in the audience, actually, writing a series of articles for National Review

1:53.0

Online at the time.

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