The future of free speech at the Supreme Court

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 14 April 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Adam Liptak of The New York Times and Geoffrey Stone of the University of Chicago discuss the future of free speech in a special Freedom Day episode. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on our Facebook page and Twitter feed. Please subscribe to We the People on iTunes. While you’re in the iTunes Store, leave us a rating and review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to Live at America’s Town Hall, featuring conversations and debates presented at the Center, across from Independence Hall in beautiful Philadelphia. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out all of our sibling podcasts at iTunes.com/Panoply. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Josh Waimberg, Lana Ulrich, and Danieli Evans. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:08.0	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information about
0:13.8	the US Constitution on a nonpartisan basis and on today's show we celebrate the
0:19.0	second annual Freedom Day. Yes, ladies and gentlemen it is Freedom Day here at the National Constitution Center, a thrilling
0:26.2	bipartisan celebration of what the right and the left agree and disagree about the future of freedom.
0:31.9	We have a phenomenal series of thought leaders from across America
0:35.2	who are going to discuss the future of online speech and terrorism, the future of free speech
0:40.3	on campus, and I've persuaded two of our most distinguished guests to
0:45.0	join me here live in our beautiful podcast studio at the NCC to talk about the
0:49.7	future free speech at the Supreme Court. Adam Liptack is the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times.
0:56.0	Jeffrey Stone is Edward H. Levy Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School,
1:01.0	Adam Jeff, thank you so much for being here.
1:03.2	Thanks for having us.
1:04.1	Great to be here, Jeff.
1:04.8	Really delighted to have this conversation.
1:06.8	So let's begin with areas of consensus.
1:10.9	There have been over the past five years at the Supreme Court a number of cases where the Supreme
1:16.0	Court is unanimous or nearly so and liberal and conservative justices are converging to protect the First Amendment
1:24.8	including extremely unpopular speech ranging from protests at
1:29.0	funerals to animal crush videos.
1:32.0	Adam can you broadly describe the 9 to 0
1:34.9	and 8 to 1 cases in which liberal and conservatives
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