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The more you have state and local carve-outs, the more chance there is for a kind of anarchic, state-by-state hyper-prosecution of free speech. Supreme Court, under the Warren Court, had really defined First Amendment freedoms in a much more uniform way. Does any of the backlash surprise you, given historically what happens in response to big social justice movements?Ī: It is not new, but there is great cause for concern. PEN America documented an explosion of anti-protest measures introduced in dozens of statehouses. The demands made in the streets and in halls of power have led to changes in both public policy and public opinion. An analysis by the New York Times suggests that it may have been the largest protest movement in U.S. Q: The recent movement for racial justice is historic by many measures. Bidleman and has been edited for length and clarity. This interview was conducted in July 2021 by FAC intern Cricket X.
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This interview is part of a series of interviews on the power and peril of speaking out, standing up for and documenting the movement for Black lives. Russell, who teaches at Santa Clara University School of Law. To understand how the First Amendment powers social justice movements like Black Lives Matter - and protects the right to protest, speak out, film police doing their jobs and more - FAC spoke to Constitutional law scholar Margaret M. But Black Lives Matter, like major civil rights and social justice movements before it, has also generated backlash, as police clashed with protesters and threatened press freedom, and in the halls of power, where lawmakers have proposed a wave of anti-protest measures, alarming civil liberties advocates. Over the course of the next year, a reckoning over racial justice prompted concrete changes in policies and politics, and it changed the conversation surrounding racial justice forever.
The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer spurred what historians call the largest protest movement in U.S. Return to the Protest & Pushback main page → On this day, another 20,000 people gathered in Chicago’s Union Park and roughly 10,000 marched on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the New York Times reported. Russell An estimated 50,000 to 80,000 people gathered to protest in Philadelphia on June 6, 2020, according to researchers’ estimates. Q&A with Constitutional Law Scholar Margaret M.
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