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To: 300winmag
Various rights in the Bill of Rights can now be ignored if you invoke the magic word "diversity".

Actually, it's scarier than that. All you have to invoke are the magic words "Compelling state interest"...

74 posted on 06/29/2003 6:50:29 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE.)
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To: okie01
Actually, it's scarier than that. All you have to invoke are the magic words "Compelling state interest"...

I think there is a compeling state interest in abridging the free speech of someone wanting to yell fire in a crowded theater.

I think there is a compelling state interest in abridging the private ownership of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

Am I wrong?

The question is, what recourse do we have against a statist judiciary finding an intrusive number of compelling state interests?

75 posted on 06/29/2003 7:52:52 PM PDT by optimistically_conservative
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