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Re: SCOTUS strikes down Stolen Valor Act

By: oldCADuser in FFFT | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 29 Jun 12 12:41 AM | 54 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Food For Further Thought 		Msg. 43939 of 65535
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Note that Justice Alito was one of the 3 dissenter, along with Justices Scalia and Thomas.

If you look at the syllabus for this ruling...

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-210d4e9.pdf

...it would appear that despite the emotional nature of this issue, the Constitutional protection of free speech has NO clause about it having to be the truth (or else Congress wouldn't be allowed to hold a single session) as long as it did not conflict with several other situations for which there is NO 1st Amendment protection of free speech, such as defamation, incitement, fraud, threat of harm, etc.




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Re: SCOTUS strikes down Stolen Valor Act
By: oldCADuser in FFFT
Fri, 29 Jun 12 12:26 AM 		Msg. 43938 of 65535

Let's see if the Right is equally outraged with the court over this.

Note that of all the current Justices, only Justice Samuel Alito has any military service. He was an ROTC cadet at Princeton and upon graduation in 1975 he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Signal Corp and after four months of active duty he transferred to the Army Reserves where he was placed on inactive duty until he was honorably discharged as a Captain in 1980.


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