Valuing and Protecting Free Speech in a Time of Hate Speak

Published: Aug. 19, 2017, 2:01 a.m.

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Protecting the right to free speech is not the same as aggreeing with the message of the speaker, but it is imperative to health of our Republic. Jane McMillan asks Matthew Coles, Professor of Constitutional Law at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, to explain what is, and is not, protected by the First Amendment.

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