To many, the immediate consequence of this freedom may often appear to be only verbal tumult, discord, and even offensive utterance. These are, however, within established limits, in truth necessary side effects of the broader enduring values which the process of open debate permits us to achiev...
Biden’s disastrous June 2024 debate performance against then-former President Donald Trump only intensified public concerns, prompting even media allies to acknowledge what many voters had already suspected. “Obviously, after the June 27th debate, everybody, including me, was writing and talking abou...
Defamation and Privacy In new york times v. sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S. Ct. 710, 11 L. Ed. 2d 686 (1964), the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the First Amendment protects open and robust debate on public issues, even when such debate includes "vehement, caustic, unpleasantly ...
“As a Nation we have chosen ... to protect even hurtful speech ... to ensure that we do not stifle public debate,” the ruling said. But it and the Jones case have key differences. “They were both extreme, outrageous, shocking, deplorable. But the Westboro Baptist Church was also ma...
(or impact assessments) for a while yet. It is possible other measures could be added (in the same way that the Skills and Post-16 Education Act grew clauses on essay mills and OfS defamation immunity during passage) as a result of thepost-legislative reviewof the Higher Education and ...