[flowerplough]

Reminds me of Obama - surprised that we all aren’t jumping to our feet and applauding when he protects, exempts, and defends Islam.

[ilovesarah2012]

Was there ever a case involving someone who yelled fire in a crowded theater?

[Williams]

Someone told him you wouldn’t be able to burn the American Flag or pee on Jesus Christ anymore, so he changed his opinion.

[South40]

He was for banning burning korans before he was against it.

[PhiloBedo]

The senile old fart is showing early signs of dementia.

[Gertie]

How does a total idiot get to be a Supreme Court justice?

[SkyDancer]

Right along with burning our flag, the Cross in a glass of urine, Mother Mary statue made out of .... the whole idea just sickens me .... all in the name of art and free speech ... but just let someone do some art about MoHAMmad or something about the Koran and see what happens ....

[coloradan]

Let me guess: calling Muslims violent is not protected speech, because doing so would cause riots ... Is that just about right? (So, it's not protected because it's correct.)

[granite]

Where does it say in the Constitution that you can not yell “fire” in a crowded theater? There are municipal laws against such behavior.

[Larry Lucido]

In your one-day stay here at FR, you’ve posted exactly two threads, and made no replies to anything, and managed to excerpt the same lame-ass blog with the same author twice, and both times you failed to put this in bloggers.

And the story the blog is rehashing has already been posted (back when it actually was “news,” and not blog fodder).

Are you John Newby, newbie?

[djf]

As I have said before, the whole “Can’t yell fire in a crowded theater” argument AS IT IS SAID TO APPLY to the first amendment is totally bogus and about the worst legal analysis I have ever heard...

One could get THE EXACT SAME RESPONSE if you were in a theater and held up a hand grenade and didn’t say a single word!

It has NOTHING to do with freedom of speech, it has everything to do with reckless endangerment.

But greater minds than Breyer have been confused by the issue, so I’m not surprised by his statements...

[South40]

In U.S. v. Stevens, Elana Kagan wrote:

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Here's how Chief Justice Roberts put it in his majority opinion striking down the law, an opinion which was joined by all of the Court's "liberal" Justices (Ginsburg, Breyer, Stevens and Sotomayor).

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[thecodont]

Dear Honorable Justice Breyer:

We are not in a crowded theater.

[count-your-change]

The Constitution is like a shadow on the wall, it changes constantly as the Court moves through the sky.

ain’t that profound sounding?

[GVnana]

Breyer’s remark that the Koran burning equated with yelling “fire” in a crowded theater had to be one of the stupidest remarks I’ve heard in a long time. Really, truly astonishing from a “jurist.” You would have to negate the entire concept of free will and personal responsibility to make any sense of it.

[MinuteGal]

What's he doing on Larry King Dead, anyhow?

What's next, Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg on "Dancing with the Stars"?

Leni

[FrankR]

Light'em if you got'em

[paudio]

Of course it depends on the analogy you choose. Yelling ‘fire’ in a theater, or burning flag/the Bible. The question is what criteria that we use in choosing the analogy. The first one is based on the similarity in results. The second one is based on whether the person agrees/disagrees with the content of the book or the meaning attached to the flag.

[Mobties]

How would Breyer know what is and isn't constitutional? He spends his time and mental energy looking at foreign cultures, animal entrails and his own stool for legal inspiration, or rather for excuses to do whatever seems to him convenient and synchronous with his perceptions of various current trends. His opinions are most accurately understood as brain farts or spasms than as reasoned and informed constitutional findings.

He has, however, given a boost to the legitimate career hopes of a recently fired New Jersey Transit worker. For this — and for the fact that broken watches give accurate readings of the time twice each day — we can all be grateful.

[Vendome]

Uhm, let’s try this line of argument you Braying Jackazz, Breyer.

It’s a symbol which can be manufactured over and over and over again.

Unlike a relic, of which there would be only one of a kind.