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2020

First Amendment

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Conflicting Reports: When Gun Rights Threaten Free Speech, Gregory P. Magarian Jan 2020

Conflicting Reports: When Gun Rights Threaten Free Speech, Gregory P. Magarian

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This Article catalogs and analyzes collisions between free speech and gun rights. The most important and hotly debated of those collisions is the clash between the First Amendment rights to assemble and speak in public political protests and the asserted Second Amendment right to carry firearms openly in public places. Beyond protests, public university students’ First Amendment rights to speak and learn clash with the asserted Second Amendment right to carry concealed weapons on university campuses; First Amendment interests in robust political deliberation clash with Second Amendment interests in promoting and securing the right to keep and bear arms; and …


Taking Stock Of The Religion Clauses, John D. Inazu Jan 2020

Taking Stock Of The Religion Clauses, John D. Inazu

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After a few decades of relative quiet, the Supreme Court has in recent years focused once again on the religion clauses and related statutes.