Judging Free Speech: First Amendment Jurisprudence Of Us Supreme Court Justices

Judging Free Speech Judging Free Speech First Am en d m ent Jur isp ru de n ce o f US S up rem e C o urt Jus t i ce s Edited by Helen J. Knowles and Steven B. Lichtman JUDGING FREE SPEECH Copyright © Helen J. Knowles and Steven B. Lichtman, 2015. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-43491-3 All rights reserved. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-137-43490-6 ISBN 978-1-137-41262-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-41262-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Judging free speech : First Amendment jurisprudence of US Supreme Court Justices / edited by Helen J. Knowles, Steven B. Lichtman. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Freedom of speech—United States. 2. United States. Constitution. 1st Amendment. 3. Judges—United States. 4. United States. Supreme Court—Officials and employees. I. Knowles, Helen J., 1973– editor. II. Lichtman, Steven B., editor. KF9345.J83 2015 342.7308’53—dc23 2015009618 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by SPi Global. First edition: September 2015 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Oh What a Tangled Web They Weave Helen J. Knowles and Steven B. Lichtman 1 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and the “Marketplace of Ideas”: Experience Proves To Be the “Life of the Law” Frederick P. Lewis vii 1 27 2 George Sutherland and the Business of Expression Samuel R. Olken 3 Absolutism and Democracy: Hugo L. Black’s Free Speech Jurisprudence Michael Paris and Kevin J. McMahon 75 “Another’s Lyric”: John Marshall Harlan II, Judicial Conservatism, and Free Speech Douglas E. Edlin 99 Justice Civility: William J. Brennan Jr.’s Free Speech Jurisprudence James C. Foster 123 4 5 49 6 Potter Stewart Meets the Press Keith J. Bybee 7 Anthony M. Kennedy: “Speech Is the Beginning of Thought” Helen J. Knowles 169 Black Like Me: The Free Speech Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas Steven B. Lichtman 191 8 147 vi 9 C o n t e n ts Stephen Breyer and the First Amendment as Legal Doctrine Mark Tushnet 215 Conclusion: It’s Complicated . . . Helen J. Knowles and Steven B. Lichtman 239 List of Contributors 255 List of Cases Cited 257 Bibliography 263 Index 277 Acknowledgments This book was borne out of a 2012 unsolicited email, the type of email that a junior scholar is never disappointed to receive. “Are you working on anything that has the potential to be a book project which Palgrave Macmillan would be interested in publishing?” Or words to that effect. This was followed by a phone conversation with Scarlet Neath, during which Helen pitched the pro