.@NYUniversity's @FirstAmendWatch has organized an online roundtable discussion of #GeorgetownLaw Professor Louis Michael Seidman's essay “Can Free Speech Be Progressive?” w/ daily commentary by #FloydAbrams @jpscasteras @JaneYakowitz & more through 6.28. Follow this thread:
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"[Professor Seidman] dismisses recent First Amendment victories in the
#SupremeCourt as a ‘radical right turn' in free speech law." Read#FirstAmendment expert Floyd Abrams' full response to Prof. Louis Michael Seidman's “Can Free Speech Be Progressive?” http://bit.ly/2MWVGza pic.twitter.com/8WRLzqIk41
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“[He] underplays the crucial importance of
#FirstAmendment principles to the civil rights movement and the practice of protesting," says@jpscasteras in response to Professor Louis Michael Seidman's "Can Free Speech be Progressive?": http://bit.ly/2KlYkgl pic.twitter.com/0gdYHeW04z
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"Louis Seidman argues that free speech cannot be a resource for progressive lawmaking. I agree. American free speech law is unquestionably libertarian."
@JaneYakowitz responds to Professor Seidman's essay via@nyuniversity's@FirstAmendWatch. Read here: http://bit.ly/2K5WfJa pic.twitter.com/Mhjdyfm2Z3
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"When I read [Seidman's essay] I thought: might a similar question be asked in the case of conservatives? In these modern times, it is easy to forget just how much free speech freedom was antithetical to conservative values." Ronald K.L. Collins responds: http://bit.ly/2tGs9RD pic.twitter.com/eN37CfLiKq
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