"(Blazelon) Interestingly enough, Anthony Elonis didn't deliver the message in person, by phone or in a note. ... During its first examination of the limits of free speech on social media, the Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether violent images and threatening language posted on Facebook and other social media constitute as a true threat to others or simply the protected rants of someone filled with what one advocate called "digital courage." (Washington Post) Elonis argues that the postings, which included the lyrics of songs by the contemporary rapper Eminem, wer...

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Indeed, she notes the major success of this constitutional milestone in safeguarding the voices of the minority in the United States. ... Susan notes the majority opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Miller v. ... Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote, "To equate the free and robust exchange of ideas and political debate with commercial exploitation of obscene material demeans the grand conception of the First Amendment and its implications in the struggle for freedom. It is a misuse of the great guarantees of free speech and free press." ... "Congress shall make no law respec...

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Blackmun recognized that the issue must be resolved within the realms of "constitutional measurement, free of emotion and of predilection". ... He argues against the guidelines of trimesters of pregnancy, noting that Roe could have been in "her last trimester of pregnancy as of the date the complaint was filed" (412). ...

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In his interpretation he clearly notes that the First Amendment "seems to be a very uncompromising statement." ... The right to say whatever you want is one of the many things that makes this country truly unique and free. ...

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