Kagan: Speech is free if government decides it has more value than 'societal costs'By: Mark Tapscott<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bios/mark-tapscott.html> Editorial Page Editor 05/10/10 4:08 PM EDT In this Jan. 28,2010 file photo, U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan speaks during a panel about Women Advocates of the Supreme Court Bar at the Newseum in Washington. Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, a person familiar with the president's thinking said Sunday night, May 9, 2010.
Freedom of speech, religion and other First Amendment issues are likely to be among the most visible during the coming Senate confirmation hearings on President Obama's nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the U.S. Supreme Court. As an illustration why, consider this quote dug up by the First Amendment Center's David L. Hudson, who found it in a government brief signed by Kagan in United States v Stevens<http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/faclibrary/case.aspx?case=US_v_Stevens>: “Whether a given category of speech enjoys First Amendment protection depends upon a categorical balancing of the value of the speech against its societal costs.” The case concerned a statute that made it criiminally unlawful to depict animal cruelty. The Court rejected Kagan's reasoning, but had the justices accepted her assertion, it would have effectively repealed the First Amendment's protection of speech and replaced it by granting government the authority to decide what speech should be permitted. You can read the entirety of Kagan's brief here<http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/briefs/pdfs/07-08/08-769_Petitioner.pdf>, and additional analysis by Hudson of Kagan's record on First Amendment issues here. <http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=22934> Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Kagan-Speech-is-free-if-government-decides-it-has--93309159.html#ixzz0nZkYCJfy hoogroups.com> http://bit.ly/auDn0l Washington Examiner Kagan: Speech is free if government decides it has more value than 'societal costs' By: Mark Tapscott Editorial Page Editor 05/10/10 4:08 PM EDT Freedom of speech, religion and other First Amendment issues are likely to be among the most visible during the coming Senate confirmation hearings on President Obama's nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the U.S. Supreme Court. As an illustration why, consider this quote dug up by the First Amendment Center's David L. 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