Well, try to speak in court if you are a witness after the judge orders you to be quiet. Testimony is an area where both speech restrictions and speech compulsions are routine.
This isn’t to say that Prof. Blocher’s argument is sound – analogies between different constitutional provisions will only take you so far. (Plus there are counteranalogies – the right to jury trial, unless I’m mistaken, has specifically been held not to include the right to waive a jury trial.) It’s just that in the First Amendment context, the right not to speak is usually (not always) as protected as the right to speak; the objection should be to applying it to the Second Amendment. Eugene From: firearmsregprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:firearmsregprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Phil Lee Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 9:25 PM To: Joseph E. Olson; List Firearms Reg Subject: Re: Background intelligence "The First Amendment, for example, guarantees both the right to speak and the right not to speak." Try to "not speak" if you are a reporter trying to protect the ID of a source after ordered revealed by a judge. Phil ________________________________ From: Joseph E. Olson <jol...@gw.hamline.edu<mailto:jol...@gw.hamline.edu>> To: List Firearms Reg <firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu>> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:54 PM Subject: Background intelligence I've just learned that I'll be on a panel with him at the Univ. of Wisconsin in early November. Anyone know him or his work? **************************************************************************************************************** Professor Joseph Olson, J.D., LL.M. o- 651-523-2142 Hamline University School of Law (MS-D2037) f- 651-523-2236 St. Paul, MN 55113-1235 c- 612-865-7956 jol...@gw.hamline.edu<mailto:jol...@gw.hamline.edu> http://law.hamline.edu/constitutional_law/joseph_olson.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Associate Professor Joseph Blocher’s principal academic interests include federal and state constitutional law, the First and Second Amendments, capital punishment, and property. He joined the Duke Law faculty in 2009. Before coming to Duke, he clerked for Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Rosemary Barkett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He also practiced in the appellate group of O’Melveny & Myers, where he assisted the merits briefing for the District of Columbia in District of Columbia v. Heller. Articles: The Right Not to Keep or Bear Arms<http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/2464/>, 64 Stanford Law Review 1-54 (2012) Categoricalism and Balancing in First and Second Amendment Analysis<http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/2104/>, 84 New York University Law Review 375-434 (2009) Heller's Problematic Second Amendment Categoricalism<http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/2462/>, The Legal Workshop (October 2, 2009) _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:Firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
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