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(46,091 posts)And while I will not defend the current Supreme Court' majority, the principle that incitement to riot can be Constitutionally prosecuted only in the narrowest of situations (not presented by the phony broadcast) was articulated by a unanimous Supreme Court whose members included Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan, and William O. Douglas. In fact, Douglas -- who was probably the most progressive justice in the Court's history -- wrote a concurring opinion in the case arguing that the rest of the Court had not gone far enough in protecting speech.
I doubt you think Douglas, Marshall and Brennan are "crooked politicians". You shouldn't let your antipathy towards the current Court majority, which is deserved, cloud your view of what the Court has said in the past.