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When was that amendment passed?

• amyjess 10y ago
  The Supreme Court ruled in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. that defamation is not protected speech, and the Supreme Court's word is final and absolute. No amendment is needed, as the Supreme Court has consistently ruled multiple times that freedom of speech is not absolute. Your arguments are the same kind of logic used by tax protesters who concoct arcane reasons that they don't have to pay income tax yet invariably find themselves convicted for tax evasion. Fraud has been illegal for as long as the US has existed. It's not protected. If it was protected as free speech, fraud laws would have been overturned sometime in the last 225 years. Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_statements_of_fact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_statements_of_fact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
  • cmdrfred 10y ago
    > the Supreme Court's word is final and absolute. In Dred Scott v. Sandford the court ruled that the bill of rights does not apply to African Americans. Are you a supporter of that decision or did you mistype? Where does it say that the court gets to supersede the constitution? I think you will find that it does not.