Congress shall make no law but Congress is making laws

Or the State of Texas. Point is, someone is making laws, and I am not happy about it.

Oct 04, 2022

∙ Paid

It has been some time since my last update, because September is silly season for the types of law I practice. As some might have heard, our intrepid hero traveled last month to the august Fifth Circuit to present oral argument in the case of Thomas Alan Arthur v. United States, an obscenity case. So it is with that rather rough segue into Our Hero’s Thoughts on recent First Amendment doings around the country.

A copy of the First Amendment which reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." — This is my Old Glory.

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