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Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Westboro Protest at Marine's Funeral
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyThe Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday over a classic First Amendment case: At what point does free speech become so offensive that is loses its protection under the Constitution? At issue are the crude anti-gay protests staged by members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church at military funerals. The father of a Marine killed in Iraq has asked the court to reinstate a $5 million judgment against the Rev. Fred Phelps and other church members who picketed his son's funeral, carrying signs saying "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" and "God Hates Fags." Phelps and his followers were ...
Top Court's Ruling in School Case Skirts Bigger Issue
By Tamara Lytle - AOL News(June 29) -- The Supreme Court has decided a California law school can deny university recognition to a campus club that bars non-Christians from its membership. But the ruling still hasn't settled the larger issue of how far colleges can go in pressing student groups not to discriminate. Many public universities have policies requiring campus groups not to discriminate on the basis of things like religion, sexual orientation and race. However, in making its decision Monday the court passed up the opportunity to rule on how those policies apply to religious groups -- whether a Christian ...
Police Raid Raises Question: Are Bloggers Journalists?
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(April 27) -- The saga of the wayward iPhone 4G just got even stranger. Jason Chen, the Gizmodo editor who made headlines last week with stories about the prototype device his tech blog purchased, came home Friday night to find police had broken into his house and confiscated his computers. Gizmodo, a Gawker Media blog, claims Chen is protected by a California law that says a "publisher, editor, reporter or any other person connected with or employed upon a newspaper, magazine or other periodical publication" can't be forced to reveal sources or turn over unpublished information. Watch CBS ...
Justices Spar Over Case of Religious Campus Group
By Tamara Lytle - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (April 19) -- A California law school's mandate that its campus groups must admit anyone -- including atheists -- into the leadership of a Christian society provoked a lively argument in the Supreme Court today as the justices weighed whether the policy was constitutional or just plain "weird." The hour of spirited argument pointed to a divide within the court on the case of Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, which stems from a policy at Hastings College of the Law -- part of the University of California -- requiring that official student groups not discriminate in accepting ...
Campus Faith Group Takes Fight to Supreme Court
By Tamara Lytle - AOL News(April 18) -- The Supreme Court on Monday will take up a case that pits anti-discrimination efforts against freedom of speech, setting the stage for a ruling with the potential to affect everything from how government contracts are issued to who can join high school after-school groups. The case, Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, revolves around a student group at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law that requires its officers and voting members to be Christian and adhere to core religious principles, including those against homosexuality and sex outside of ...
Opinion: Should Government Support Journalism? It Always Has
By not in system - AOL News(Feb. 1) – Everyone knows from American history class that the First Amendment is the great protector of press freedom in the United States, barring Congress from "abridging" the sacred right to publish what you want to publish. So does that means there's a constitutional wall that separates government and the press, just as it separates church and state? Not exactly. Contrary to popular perception, the Constitution has not prevented the government from being a supporter of the press, and in fact it has been a generous benefactor since the founding of the country. In a report issued ...
Palin Billboard Fight 'a Crusade' for Rights
By Richard C. Paddock - AOL News(Nov. 12) -- Alan Herson and his son, Jeffrey, have been fighting for years for the right to build billboards in Western states. Jeffrey Herson runs commercial billboard companies. His father, an attorney, files lawsuits on his behalf. "It's a crusade," says the elder Herson, who won a landmark billboard case in Oregon in 2006. "We fight for truth, justice and the American way." Their latest target is the city of San Carlos, Calif., a suburb of San Francisco where they hope to erect a billboard promoting Sarah Palin for president in 2012. The sign, which could also display commercial ...
Fetuses and Bong Hits: Student Free-Speech Debate Wears On
By Andrew Clark - Politics DailyIn April of 2008, Anna Amador's daughter, a sixth-grader, walked into a Merced, Calif., elementary school wearing a pro-life T-shirt showing images of fetuses and the words "Abortion: Growing . . . Growing . . . Gone." She probably wasn't expecting what happened next. ...
Charlie Rangel Would Like to Thank His Donors for Paying All Those Parking Tickets
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyAmerica is a great country because we value freedom of speech. But the first amendment doesn't just protect our freedom of religion, assembly, and the press. It also affords the right to "petition the government" and this, according to some on Capitol Hill, means the right to make campaign contributions.You know the drill: Give money to a politician and he/she spends it on TV advertising, travel to constituents' forums, rallies, and personal parking tickets. That's why it's important that you--What's that? You didn't know about the personal parking tickets part? Well then you, friend, ...
Anti-Christmas Message in Washington State Capitol Holiday Display
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe State of Washington accepted an application from an atheist group, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, to place an anti-religion message as part of the state's official holiday display in the state capitol rotunda steps from a traditional nativity scene. The decision is the culmination of a three-year long battle in Washington over inclusiveness in holiday displays. In 2006, the Port of Seattle removed a Christmas tree from the Seattle-Tacoma airport after a local rabbi requested to add a menorah to honor Hanukkah. That same year, an Olympia real estate agent, Ron Wesselius, requested to ...
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