A prominent federal judge ruled that journalists have no right under the First Amendment to keep their interview notes and tapes confidential.
The petitioner's first amendment argument was unfounded, Thomas wrote – because students have no first amendment rights at all.
Thomas, characteristically, wrote a concurring opinion urging the Court to go farther and hold that students have no First Amendment rights at all.
If corporations have no First Amendment rights, what about newspapers and other news organizations, almost all of which are organized as corporations?
He believes that the country was a Christian nation when the Bill of Rights was written, and therefore non-Christians "have no First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion".
In a concurring opinion, Justice Thomas insisted unapologetically that, because teachers in the colonial era imposed strict discipline "with an iron hand," students today should have no First Amendment rights of freedom of speech in public schools.
Its associate legal director, Christopher T. Dunn, said, "The court's ruling that police officers have no First Amendment protection when they disclose serious police misconduct not only betrays the Constitution, but is also disastrous for the public's ability to learn about hidden police scandals".
Rather, in ruling that reporters have "no First Amendment privilege to refuse to answer the relevant & material questions asked during a good-faith grand jury investigation", the Court was refusing to make new law in an area previously unexplored by the Court.
Rather, in ruling that reporters have "no First Amendment privilege to refuse to answer the relevant & material questions asked during a good-faith grand jury investigation", the Court was refusing to make new law in an area previously unexplored by the Court... View Article By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino By Masha Gessen.
(quoted in Larson 2012, p. 128), and in cases such as Webster v. New Lenox School District No. 122 and Peloza v. Capistrano Unified School District, the courts have found that teachers have no First Amendment rights to teach creationism or to refuse to teach evolution while they are in the public school classroom (Larson 2012, pp. 200 203).
He has also accused former CIA Director John Brennan of secretly converting to Islam; has called for CAIR officials to be locked up; and has said mosques have no First Amendment rights. .
