Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
Tag: Clarence Thomas
(1948- ) U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
No prior restraint on speech
A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.
No prior restraint
A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.