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Constitution should safeguard basic fundamental human rights

Like a true advocate for personal freedom, U.S Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pointed out that “the spirit of liberty has to be in the population, and then the constitutionshould safeguard basic fundamental human rights, like our First Amendment, the right to speak freely, and to publish freely, without the government as a censor.”

Zdroj: Justice Ginsburg Tells Egyptians: Don’t Model Government on U.S. Constitution.

United States v. Jones: Ochrana individuálních práv je velkým tématem i současné americké judikatury

The government’s continuous and long-term tracking of someone’s vehicle without a valid warrant is unconstitutional !

Zdroj: United States v. Jones | Ilya Shapiro, Tim Lynch and Jim Harper | Cato Institute: Legal Briefs.

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Epic Win for First Amendment!

The Supreme Court scored an epic win for the First Amendment in striking down California’s prohibition on selling violent videogames to minors. The law was both overly broad—sweeping in a wide variety of games based on no objective standard and no age-based gradations—and underinclusive—with no restrictions on other types of media. With a few strictly drawn exceptions for historically unprotected speech—obscenity, incitement, fighting words—government lacks the power to restrict expression simply because of its content. And a legislature cannot create new types of unprotected speech simply by weighing its purported social costs against its alleged value.

Reading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than playing Mortal Kombat,” Justice Scalia points out in his majority opinion. “But these cultural and intellectual differences are not constitutional ones.”

Zdroj: Epic Win for First Amendment in Violent Videogame Case | Cato @ Liberty.

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