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Sheldon Whitehouse: “There is nothing in the First Amendment that would protect threatening or corrupt speech, even if it is anonymous.”

On the recordApril 8, 2013
There is nothing in the First Amendment that would protect threatening or corrupt speech, even if it is anonymous.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse clarifies that the First Amendment does not protect corrupt speech.

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