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The First Amendment protects our freedom to say and write just about anything we want — but that doesn’t mean we ought to, particularly in public life.
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Read More »Gene Policinski: Let’s keep a civil tongue in our head
Gene Policinski: Let’s keep a civil tongue in our head 
March 20, 2014
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The First Amendment protects our freedom to say and write just about anything we want — but that doesn’t mean we ought to, particularly in public life.
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Read More »Gene Policinski: The debate over McCullen
January 30, 2014
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Few topics in modern life have produced as much rancorous and visible public debate as abortion — and one hot point of contention today is simply how close that debate may take place to the clinics that perform them.
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Read More »Gene Policinski: Recognizing power of assembly and petition
January 31, 2013
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Assembly and petition are the “quiet freedoms” among the five rights set out in the First Amendment.
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Read More »Gene Policinski: Law to protect teachers rates ‘F’
December 6, 2012
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Does anybody remember from their school days that a student ever went to jail for scrawling a slur or insult against a teacher or a janitor on a bathroom wall?
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Read More »Gene Policinski: American free speech challenge for others
September 27, 2012
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I can say what I want, even if it offends you. And so can you.
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Read More »Gene Policinski: On Constitution Day, honor the documents that keep us free
September 16, 2012
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Constitution Day has become an annual fixture each Sept. 17 in the nation’s schools since it was mandated by Congress in 2004 – and 2012 may well be the best year yet for understanding its history and appreciating its meaning.
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Read More »Gene Policinski: Free speech rights travel at speed of bytes
August 30, 2012
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As it made the quantum leap from parchment to paper through the electronic era to digital formats, First Amendment law on freedom of expression has lagged behind technology. Today, this delayed legal reaction is playing out once again with Twitter, Facebook and the World Wide Web.
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Read More »Gene Policinski: At 21, Web woven into fabric of free speech
August 2, 2012
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Welcome to adulthood, World Wide Web. You were born on Aug. 6, 1991, as an interconnected system that makes information accessible around the globe. That will make you 21 on Monday. Since I can’t buy you a drink, how about ...
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Read More »Inside the First Amendment: Privacy in the high-tech information age
June 21, 2012
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Just how much should we worry about privacy? Near-daily incidents demand that we as a society redraw the line between our private lives and our public personas. The “public” is that part of us found in public records, subject to ...
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