The hope in the White House, of course, is that the bill, which is sponsored by Mr. McCain and Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, will be so larded with objectionable amendments that it never survives Congress.
But it gave the government the two-thirds parliamentary majority it needed to ram through its objectionable constitutional amendments—and to impeach the chief justice.This month, however, the Supreme Court ruled that the impeachment process was unconstitutional.
On the contrary, being forced to subsidize an idea with which one disagrees is even more objectionable, from a First Amendment standpoint, if the idea is expressed in the government's words than in the words of a private speaker.
Mr. Rosati said the school's position was that while many people might find Mr. Ayers's recent comments objectionable, he was within his First Amendment rights.
PEN America, the leading national organization representing writers and literary professionals and defending free expression, filed a lawsuit on October 16, 2018, against President Donald J. Trump for using the powers of the federal government to retaliate against journalists and media outlets he finds objectionable, in violation of the First Amendment.
The Court on occasion also has looked to history to discern whether certain types of government intrusion were perceived to be objectionable by the Framers of the Fourth Amendment.
As part of a tentative deal reached last week and completed over the last several days, Republicans on the Judiciary Committee agreed not to seek a repeal of the act's sunset provisions at today's vote on the terrorism bill if Democrats pulled some of their own amendments that the Republicans considered objectionable.
If there is to be a durable solution, President Mohamed Morsi will have to take the lead in steering Egypt out of the chaos he did so much to create and toward compromise, including amendments to constitutional provisions many Egyptians find objectionable.
That amendment, Lincoln argued, "Ought not to be regarded as objectionable," because both Congress and would-be emigrants had to consent before the plan could work.
In response to the incident, the university told 10News it does "not endorse, condone, or approve of the material the Koala publishes; however, the First Amendment protects their speech, even though we find it objectionable.
Representative Bill Foster, an Illinois Democrat who is co-sponsoring the bill, offered an amendment this week that would remove provisions that critics found most objectionable.
