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March 11, 2021

The Supreme Court Strikes a Blow for Religious Freedom

Why Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski matters.

While one might have thought that the Bill of Rights renders the entire United States a “free-speech zone,” at Georgia Gwinnett College, a state school, the term is applied only to two small areas, open only eighteen hours a day—where students are allowed to speak freely only after securing advance permission from the administration. Such activities as distributing pamphlets or holding up picket signs are elsewhere forbidden, or, at the very least, can be stopped by the authorities. On Monday, this policy was sharply rebuked by an eight-to-one Supreme Court ruling in the case of Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski. Dan McLaughlin comments:

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