Commentary
Inside the First Amendment
By Gene Policinski
First Amendment Center
To paraphrase a popular TV commercial, free speech is “priceless.”
As protesters and delegates gather for this year’s national political conventions — Democrats in Denver starting Aug. 25, Republicans in St. Paul Sept. 1 — that’s a constitutional principle well worth noting.
The conventions and their host cities are bracing for thousands of demonstrators. For Democrats, one group plans actions “commemorating” the violence-filled 1968…
