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Podcast: Make No Law: The First Amendment Podcast
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Fighting Words
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:29:45
Publish Date: 2018-01-31 15:45:00
Description: On April 6, 1940, a Jehovah's Witness named Walter Chaplinsky was arrested for yelling, “You are a God damned racketeer and a damned Fascist and the whole government of Rochester are Fascists or agents of Fascists” at a Rochester, New Hampshire police officer.  The confrontation launched the case Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, which made it all the way to the Supreme Court.  The Court ruled against Chaplinsky, articulating an exception to the First Amendment for so-called “fighting words.”
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