{"title":"When Speech Advances Civil Rights","authors":"Rodney A. Smolla","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter draws attention to free speech awyers who defend freedom of speech that often find themselves defending people and causes that they personally find reprehensible. It mentions stock free speech clichés used by lawyers, which implies that lawyers may disagree on what their clients say but not their right to say it. It also analyzes Virginia Law School professor Leslie Kendrick's explanation on modern free speech principles, clarifying that it exists to shield unpopular views from the power of majorities. The chapter mentions the believers of the order and morality theory that argues that free speech principles should protect those on the side of righteousness and justice, such as the Black Lives Matter or Antifa in today's civil rights movements. It discusses the New York Times and Claiborne Hardware cases in order to explain why believers of the marketplace theory are not inclined to trust the government.","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115042082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"13. The Rise of the Marketplace","authors":"Rodney A. Smolla","doi":"10.7591/9781501749674-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501749674-014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116197716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Marketplace Doubles Down","authors":"Rodney A. Smolla","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the shift from the order and morality theory to the marketplace theory that took place in a series of landmark cases that span decades. It recounts events wherein the First Amendment upheld the right to protect critiques of public officials in 1964, rights of racists to engage in rituals such as cross burning in 1971, and right to protect the burning of the American flag in 1989. It also reviews the First Amendment principles of the modern epoch that exerted a powerful gravitational pull on the events in Charlottesville in 2017. The chapter mentions Paul Cohen who was arrested for wearing a jacket designed with a vulgar message and convicted of tumultuous and offensive conduct. It notes how Cohen's involvement with graphic language made a shift to the marketplace theory that embraces the protection for the graphic use of symbols.","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128398080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"20. The Russian Connection","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501749674-021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501749674-021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125891665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Call to Conscience","authors":"Rodney A. Smolla","doi":"10.7591/CORNELL/9781501749650.003.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/CORNELL/9781501749650.003.0021","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter recounts the July 8 ku Klux Klan event that worsened the division among members of Charlottesville's clergy. It looks at religious leaders who had gone to Justice Park to confront the Klan largely that believed that the Charlottesville Police Department had effectively taken sides in favor of the Klan and against the counterprotesters. It also talks about the “Congregate Charlottesville,” which is a clergy group that was created after the Klan rally and who identified themselves as an instrument for organizing faith leaders. The chapter describes the Congregate Charlottesville's determination to take a more aggressive approach to the next Unite the Right rally. It discloses how the group issued a national appeal to the clergy to come to Charlottesville to oppose and confront the national white supremacist rally.","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126525487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"11. May Days","authors":"Rodney A. Smolla","doi":"10.7591/9781501749674-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501749674-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"78 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129714415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"19. Duke and the Disciples","authors":"Rodney A. Smolla","doi":"10.7591/9781501749674-020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501749674-020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127161967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"14. Cue the Counterprotesters—Stage Left","authors":"Rodney A. Smolla","doi":"10.7591/9781501749674-015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501749674-015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128168421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501749674-033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501749674-033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116270053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bloodshed","authors":"Rodney A. Smolla","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.003.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.003.0029","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the dozens of brawls that erupted throughout the Charlottesville downtown area, as groups of Unite the Right marchers advanced toward Emancipation Park from various directions while counterdemonstrators tried to block them. It mentions Tanesha Hudson, a Charlottesville local, who expressed frustration at the passivity of the police as Unite the Right marchers lowered their flags to use as weapons. It also talks about the Unite the Right marchers that displayed swastikas and wearing white shirts as they ran into the peaceful black-shirted demonstrators that sought to avoid direct confrontation. The chapter points out how Unite the Right demonstrators appeared to be focusing their aggression on a middle-aged African American man. It discloses the highly trained troopers of the Virginia State Police that did nothing to intervene as the violence erupted.","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126606793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}