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Free speech rights doesn't give you blanket protection to break the law. It just means a law can't specifically target your speech. So just as a law against the
by advisedwang 2y ago
Free speech rights doesn't give you blanket protection to break the law. It just means a law can't specifically target your speech. So just as a law against theft still can be applied to someone that commits theft as part of a performance art piece, so also can a general law against an accumulation of inoperative vehicles be applied against an accumulation of a inoperative art cars.
- datavirtue 2y agoI think this has been well tested at the supreme Court. Call the vehicle art, done.
- advisedwang 2y agoUnited States v. O'Brien, 391 U.S. 367 is the relevant precedent. > When "speech" and "nonspeech" elements are combined in the same course of conduct, a sufficiently important governmental interest in regulating the nonspeech element can justify incidental limitations on First Amendment freedom So long as Gilbert has an "substantial" interest in preventing derelict cars and the regulation doesn't go beyond what's necessary, it would stand.