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To: ETL

Fighting Words

In 1942, the U.S. Supreme Court established the doctrine by a 9–0 decision in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire.

It held that “insulting or ‘fighting words,’ those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace” are among the “well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech the prevention and punishment of [which] … have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem.”
(Wikipedia)


126 posted on 02/06/2017 12:22:13 PM PST by donna ('God's standards, like it or not, are the basis for the laws that led to western civilization.)
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To: donna

Do you know anything at all about the guy you’re defending? Putin.


127 posted on 02/06/2017 12:27:20 PM PST by ETL (Trump admin apparently playing "good cop, bad cop" with thug Putin (see my FR Home page))
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