Symposium: What’s the harm in a T-shirt?
Charles Rothfeld is special counsel at Mayer Brown. He will file an amicus brief on behalf of the State and Local Legal Center supporting the respondents in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky.
Symposium before the oral argument in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky
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Symposium: Polling-place speech restrictions collide with modern free-speech doctrine
Ken Klukowski is an attorney representing the American Civil Rights Union, which filed an amicus brief in support of the challengers in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky, and is also senior legal editor for Breitbart News Network.
Symposium: Don’t tread on my passive political speech
Elizabeth Slattery is a legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation and co-host of SCOTUS 101, a podcast about the Supreme Court. When was the last time a T-shirt changed the way you voted? Probably never, but the state of Minnesota thinks you’re much more impressionable.
Symposium: Whose side is the First Amendment really on?
Daniel I. Weiner is senior counsel and Christopher R. Deluzio is counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. As the petitioners in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky would have it, the case is a classic First Amendment dispute.
Symposium: Nothing undignified about political messaging — in America, we call that democracy
Rodney Smolla is dean and professor of law at Widener University Delaware Law School. The Supreme Court should strike down the Minnesota statute at issue in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky.
Symposium: The right to vote in peace
J. Gerald Hebert is the senior director for voting rights and redistricting at the Campaign Legal Center. American political campaigns are extended crescendos of vitriol. Passions and tempers run high. But at the end of all the viciousness, the citizens cast their votes.
Justices to hear challenge to Minnesota voting dress code: In Plain English
In 2010, Andrew Cilek went to his local polling place in Hennepin County, Minnesota, to vote. Cilek was wearing a T-shirt that had three different images on it: the Tea Party logo, the message “Don’t Tread on Me,” and an image of the Gadsden flag, which dates back to the American Revolution but is often associated these days with the Tea Party and libertarianism.