Month: January 2015

54 years ago today, Irving Feiner learned that his conviction for disorderly conduct would be upheld. In Feiner v. New York, the Supreme Court ruled that potentially hostile crowd reactions to unpopular speech permitted the police to intervene and direct a speaker to stop his public address.  The refusal to stop speaking by Mr. Feiner, who […]

42 years ago today, the US Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, which, at the time, established a woman’s unqualified constitutional right to choose whether to terminate a pregnancy during the first two trimesters — the generally accepted period during which the fetus is not viable outside the womb.  Do the same protections established in Roe still exist […]