CSPAN2 The July 3, 2024
At the end of his extraordinary with suzanne and also Salman Rushdie challenged us to defend the First Amendment principle that we must protect the thought we hate, as Justice Holmes called it, and that in america, speech can only be banned if its intended to and likely to cause imminent violence. Thats the principle that comes the brandenburg case. It was articulated by brandeis in witney, and it makes america, as Salman Rushdie said the most speech protective country in the world. And on our first panel, were going to explore the history of that shining idea with three of americas greatest h...