Greenberg v. Lehocky
Yesâ Insensitive Speech is Still Protected
Our Constitution does not require every attorney refrain from crude, offensive, or even harassing language. In fact, it actually protects such speech.Â
Our Constitution does not require every attorney refrain from crude, offensive, or even harassing language. In fact, it actually protects such speech.Â
President Obama decided that the people and businesses of southern Oregon should be âleft behind.â Mountain States will not stand by and let it happen.
Government should err on the side of liberty and steer clear of the constitutional boundaries they are obligated to respect.
This is the next frontier of fighting race discrimination. The Supreme Court must take up the case, or else schools will know exactly how to discriminate.
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— Coach Joseph Kennedy is a former U.S. Marine who coached football at Bremerton High School, in Bremerton, Washington, until 2015, when he was suspended from his job by the school district for defying an order to not public engage in a post-game prayer. Now, after a series of court setbacks, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to rule on whether Kennedyâs religious liberties were trampled when the district first forbid him from praying with his players, and then ordered him to pray in secret. At issue in this case is whether public employees can be legally prohibited from private and personal displays of religious faith on âEstablishment Clauseâ grounds.
In the American constitutional order, Congress makes laws. The President and federal agencies are tasked with executing, enforcing and sometimes interpreting those laws, in cases where Congress used ambiguous language. But how much latitude and discretion does the executive branch have when it comes to the interpretative part of its mission, if the text of the law isnât clear? On that question a lot depends, given the vast regulatory power the modern administrative state wields like a hammer.