Given that the Supreme Court has held that offensive, embarrassing, disgusting, and even false speech warrant protection under the First Amendment, it's hard to imagine upholding a law that, on its face, criminalizes tweeting a photo of Rihanna wearing a see-through dress on a red carpet.
The Justice Department proposes to try Mr. Assange on a single count of conspiring (with Ms. Manning) to break into a U.S. computer system, which, on its face, does not criminalize the communication of the secrets thereby obtained.
Tensions have flared in recent months over France's new "burqa ban," which effectively criminalized full face veils.
Just blurring their faces would've criminalized them and made them into an "other," which would've prevented us from obtaining some grain of truth from this horrible situation.
After all, no one is seeking to criminalize the conduct of genomic research, whereas researchers working with human embryonic stem cells face the prospect of criminal penalties in certain jurisdictions.
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, Marta Santos Pais, said these children may be stigmatized as a result of being exploited, and they face the risk of being criminalized when they deserve protection.
Criminalizing full-face veiling infringes on personal freedom in a modern democracy, they say, by putting the women who wear burqas and niqabs under virtual house arrest.
While he was committed to legally reporting his income despite the fact that his work was criminalized, he faced losing access to health care if his reported income went beyond the Medicaid threshold.
666, 82 L.Ed. 949 (1938), which had invalidated on its face and on First Amendment grounds an ordinance criminalizing the distribution of any handbill at any time or place without a permit.
Including the violence we face at the hands of the state like being criminalized for sex work and substance use".
She could face 14 years in prison for it under Irish law, which criminalizes women who have abortions.
