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In reply to the discussion: Is the pattern clear enough to start suing the right-wing nuts for inciting violence on [View all]melm00se
(5,161 posts)was decided by the 1969 Court which was many things but right wing.
Furthermore, this was an 8-0 decision (Justice Fortas had resigned but not yet replaced). This makes overturning or modifying this ruling a monumental task.
Additionally, this ruling cuts both ways. Look at the two cases I referenced in my original (Hess v. Indiana and NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co), they were both cases that would have been celebrated upon the decision if DU existed in 1973 and 1982 respectively.
Can you imagine if those cases went the other way?
(to help you out: Hess stemmed from a anti-war protest and NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co from a boycott of white merchants in MS at during the Civil Rights movement and the merchants suing for economic restitution for that boycott).