A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court

Craig Smith

doi:10.5771/9781611493627

Summary

A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court focuses on the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court and determines their frames for assessing First Amendment cases. In each of the chapters, a justice will be profiled in terms of his or her claims during the nomination hearings and the positions they have taken in significant Supreme Court decisions. The object of these chapters is to provide a rhetorical frame that each of these justices would find appealing regarding First Amendment case law.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-1-61149-361-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-61149-362-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 184
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
1. Various Modalities: A Discussion No access
2. Conclusions No access
3. Notes No access
1. Requiring the Advice and Consent of the Senate No access
2. The Fortas Crisis No access
3. Haynsworth and Carswell No access
4. Nixon’s Later Appointments No access
5. The Nomination of Robert Bork No access
6. The Thomas Nomination No access
7. Conclusions No access
8. Notes No access
1. Confirmation Hearings No access
2. Morse v. Frederick No access
3. Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. No access
4. Conclusions No access
5. Notes No access
1. Symbolic Speech No access
2. Political Speech No access
3. Obscenity No access
4. Other First Amendment Cases No access
5. Conclusions No access
6. Notes No access
1. Historical No access
2. Precedential No access
3. Structural No access
4. Appealing to Justice Scalia No access
5. Conclusions No access
6. Notes No access
1. Ethical Arguments No access
2. Textual Arguments No access
3. Precedential Arguments No access
4. Prudential Arguments No access
5. Conclusions No access
6. Notes No access
1. Souter’s Nomination Hearings No access
2. Rosenberger and the Historic Modality No access
3. Garcetti and the Doctrinal Modality No access
4. Cohen and the Prudential Modality No access
5. Conclusions No access
6. Introducing Associate Justice Sotomayor No access
7. Notes No access
1. Precedential Rhetoric No access
2. Ethical Arguments No access
3. Prudential Reasoning No access
4. Conclusions No access
5. Notes No access
1. Precedential Reasoning No access
2. Ethical Reasoning No access
3. Conclusions No access
4. Notes No access
1. Historical Rhetoric No access
2. Precedential Arguments No access
3. Prudential Arguments No access
4. Conclusions No access
5. Notes No access
1. Confirmation Hearings No access
2. Hein Ruling No access
3. Davis Ruling No access
4. Conclusions No access
5. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Index of Major First Amendment Supreme Court Cases Cited in this Study No access Pages 179 - 182
1. Editor No access
2. Contributors No access