Thread by @normative

There is literally a Supreme Court on precisely the question of whether the First Amendment protects the right to use the word “fuck” in a publicly visible political slogan. They said it does. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen_v._…

https://twitter.com/pebonilla/status/1416160633767219201

Cohen v. California was actually a closer call, because it involved wearing a “Fuck the Draft” jacket into a public courthouse, where the government has some extra latitude to set rules of decorum. The sign in this case was on the woman’s own property.

* “literally a Supreme Court CASE…”

Seriously, how is it possilble that this article doesn’t mention one of the Supreme Court’s most famous First Amendment cases, which is about exactly the same question, and which says the judge here is wrong?

Forms of expression more offensive than “Fuck Joe Biden” that the Supreme Court has held are protected by the First Amendment:

* Marching through a Jewish neighborhoood with swastika banners

* Cross burning

* Yelling “fucking pigs” directly at police officers

* Protesting a soldier’s funeral with signs that said “God Hates Fags” and “Thank God for Dead Soldiers”

This shouldn’t be a hard call.

Particularly depressing to see an actual judge engaging in the kind of hand-wavey First Amendment pseudo-analysis I associate with Twitter trolls: “Well, free speech isn’t an ABSOLUTE right, therefore let’s just assume this instance I don’t like is one of the exceptions…”