Saturday, March 12, 2016

Akil Alleyne ― A REAL Free Speech Exception: Trump's Threats

Unlike "hate speech," Donald Trump's encouragement of violent attacks on protestors at his campaign rallies actually *does* fall within a judicially recognized exception to the 1st Amendment right to free speech.

 
Here's a bit of info on the "incitement to imminent lawless action" exception to the First Amendment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminen...

Here's some footage of the sucker-punching of a protestor by a Trump supporter at a recent Trump rally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNjoR....

Here's the CNN.com article from which I read Trump's most legally egregious threat: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/10/politic....

Here's a Mediaite article on that same incident: http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-....