Tuesday, August 15, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
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The Federal Judge's Injunction in the Case of Reed v. Gilbert
The judge rightly pointed to a Supreme Court precedent from 2015 known as the case of Reed versus the town of Gilbert in which the Supreme Court of the United States made extremely clear that laws that would try to prohibit a specific type of speech are on their face almost assuredly unconstitutional. That's exactly what the First Amendment to the United States Constitution says the federal government can't do. By extension this means that the states also cannot as governments practice the kind of viewpoint discrimination and content discrimination that is at the very heart of this.
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