Civil Liberties | Restrictions Against Hate Speech Are Necessary

About the author: Michael Israel is director of the criminal justice program at Kean University.

Virtually every case that the courts see regarding the First Amendment involves symbolic speech such as lettering on garments and offensive offhand utterances. Not since Terminiello v. Chicago (1949) has a speech itself been tested. That case involved conditions of a speech as a Communist riot outside a hall threatened to disrupt a speech by a neofascist. However, on November 30, 1993, at Kean College in New Jersey, Khalid Muhammad, a spokesman for the Nation of...

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