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Book Banning and the Constitution

What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

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Are New Laws Unconstitutionally Vague?

The Supreme Court has said that a law is unconstitutionally vague if it fails to provide people of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to understand what conduct it prohibits. So even if you want to comply with the law, if you can't figure out how to do that because the law is so poorly written, that also can be a constitutional problem. And that's exactly the claim that some of the recent lawsuits that have been filed about these new education laws or restrictions are arguing. They're not going to be able to win, necessary ly, that the teachers have free speech rights. It's an important one. If the forbids you from doing something that it has to be written in a way

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