what was also significant is that it wasn't just that group of people, at nadine strossen said, thate invited local media and, in fact, a station in cincinnati, wlwt came to film the rally. in august 6, 1964, he was ared at his tv repair shop. in december of '66 they had trouble apparently seating a jury on this case. he was convicted under the 1919 ohio law. he appealed that to the ohio supreme court and it was rejected, and on jan 6, 1967 clarence brandenburg was sentenced to ten years in prison and a $1,000 fine. now, he could have gotten even higher fines, so the court was a little bit lenient looking at that. so what's important to know about that timeline? >> well, i will say one thing about clarence brandenburg to paraphrase justice frankfurter, that many safeguards of liberty have been forged by people who are not very nice essentially, and i think that that's, you know, one of the things we were talking about, what was the membership of the klan at the time. even clarence brandenburg's lawyer referred to his client and his client's cronies at this rally as kind of silly and

nadine strossen and katie fallow, a senior attorney at columbia university's knight first amendment institute. watch "landmark cases" monday. and join the conversation. our hashtag is landmarkcases and follow us on c-span. and we have resources on our website. the landmark cases companion book, a link to the national constitution center's interactive constitution, and the landmark cases podcast at c-span.org/landmark cases. agriculture secretary sonny perdue testified on the 2019 budget request for his department. concern about trade disruptions, commodity prices, and recent natural disasters. this is about an hour and 25 minutes. >> we'll call this meeting of the ag appropriations meeting to order. we want to thank you very much for being here. we truly appreciate it. we're here today to discuss the department of ag's fiscal year 2019 budget. we also in addition to welcoming secretary perdue want to with el come dr. johansen. thank you for being here. and also mrs. jones, thank you as well. >> before we begin, i want to extend a welcome to our newest membe member, senator hyde smith who was

before keith answers i have to say on may 7 seventh cato is gg to have another book forum with nadine strossen and she is a book on this very topic, so please keep your eyes on the kid a website and sign up and come back on may 7 and we will talk about this further, but for now, professor whittington. >> there's a section in my book on hate speech. it's true there's a lot of people thinking about it because it's a serious problem that calls for some serious thinking, in part because the conflicts here are real. there are some retentions and the values that we want to recognize. briefly, we should be very cautious about the label of hate speech. huge number of things can fly under that label and it's often unclear what exactly people are talking about when you want to use the label and sometimes it sweeps very broadly and sometimes it sweeps much more narrowly. i think we should be particularly cautious about a sweeping broadly. when some people talk about hate speech, what they really are wanting to suppress or a set of ideas they find particularly disagreeable, and that they think might lead

our guest to discuss this case are nadine strossen and katie fallow. watch landmark cases monday and join the conversation. our #is landmarkcases and follow us at c-span. we have resources on our website for background on each case. there's a link to the national constitution center's interactive constitution, and the landmark cases pod cost at cspan.org/landmarkcases. >>> next weekend n the festival of books. starting saturday add 1:00 p.m. eastern with a journalist and the book "stranger the challenge of a latino immigrant in the trump era. ♪ the author of "loaded". a book, the view of fly overcountry. dispatches from the forgotten america. on sunday our live coverage continues at 1:30 p.m. eastern with a journalist with "russian roulette". black lives matter co-founder with her book "when they call you a

host: nadine strossen is the former president of the aclu. she was the first woman and youngest person to ever hold position. she is a professor at new york law school in manhattan/ . she has a new book out called wa --why wet should resist it with free speech, not censorship." wrote a piece about video games as protected speech. host: let's start with history. concerns a set of laws called the criminal syndicalism laws. what is at the history of them? ing iny were adopted start era as world war one the spread fear of of anarchy, socialism and communism. host: did they do the same thing? nadine: the language in the ohio statute was typical in that it criminalized advocacy of violence that was geared toward bringing about social change or economic change. host: interesting that our peace we are looking at deals with the ku klux klan -- case we are looking at deals with the ku klux klan but it is the fear of communism that got it started. what was the country worried about as all these states were passing laws? the brandenburg case reflects a l

i heard nadine strossen who was a former president at aclu who speak your time recently. entioned what, there is an organization the heterodox academy and essentially it was, my understanding is what jonathan, professor liberal and nadine, also professor has said is that from the '60s in academic world, two out of three professors would be classified as to the left. today at somewhere around 20 to one. their concern is the ability of students to engage in critical discussion and free speech and what the effect has been on the academic community and wanted to get the thoughts of the panel on that. >> i actually don't think the students are facing many barriers to critical discussion of freedom of speech. i think by large universities face problems on the edges by large, in classrooms and and student groups, students are engaging in really fundamentally they conversations in universities. i think that's a bit of a red herring, but i do agree that universities have changed substantially. just like we were talking but with the media, in the 1940s and 1950s universities were se

strossen, are nadine the former head of the american civil liberties union, and professor at new yorkaw school in manhattan. and katie italo, a senior at institute.iversity's watch "landmark cases" monday and join the conversation. and follow us on c-span. websiteresources on our for background on each cases. the companion book on a link to the national constitution center 's interactive constitution, and the landmark cases podcast at c-span.org/landmarkcases. aremong the issues that near and dear to me is this idea of having conversations across party lines and political ideologies. feel that common sense requires common experience. of having adea sharing point of information we can all rely on as opposed to be -- suspiciouss of of. that is something we are working on as educators and citizens. >> affordable housing, making sure we have a diversion -- diversity inclusive city. we want to address homelessness, which many cities are struggling 21stnationwide, and century policing and making sure that our police bureau respect the cities that we live in. >> one of the most important iss

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our guest to discuss this case are nadine strossen, law professor at new york law school in manhattan, and katie fallow from the first amendment institute. watch landmark cases monday and join the conversation. our #is landmarkcases. follow us at c-span. we have resources on our website for background on each case. the landmark cases companion book, a link to the national constitution center's interactive constitution, and the landmark cases podcast at c-span.org/landmarkcases. >>> next, a four rum on the iss of robo calls. this was co-hosted by the fcc and the federal trade kplig commission. it's close to three hours. >> good morning, everyone. and welcome to the fcc, ftc policy forum on fighting the scourge of illegal robo calls. i'm patrick weber, chief of the consumer and governmental affairs bureau. we're very pleased to join forces with the ftc to further the fight against illegal robo

nadine strossen and katie fallow, a senior attorney at columbia university's knight first amendment institute. watch "landmark cases" monday. and join the conversation. our hashtag is landmarkcases and follow us on c-span. and we have resources on our website. the landmark cases companion book, a link to the national constitution center's interactive constitution, and the landmark cases podcast at c-span.org/landmark cases. agriculture secretary sonny perdue testified on the 2019 budget request for his department. concern about trade

nadine strossen and katie fallow, a senior attorney at columbia university's knight first amendment institute. watch "landmark cases" monday. and join the conversation. our hashtag is landmarkcases and follow us on c-span. and we have resources on our website. the landmark cases companion book, a link to the national constitution center's interactive constitution, and the landmark cases podcast at c-span.org/landmark cases. agriculture secretary sonny perdue testified on the 2019 budget request for his department. concern about trade disruptions, commodity prices, and recent natural disasters. this is about an hour and 25 minutes. >> we'll call this meeting of the ag appropriations meeting to order. we want to thank you very much for being here. we truly appreciate it.

law professor at new york law ool in manhattan, nadine strossen. and katie knight. watch "landmark cases" tonight. landmarkcases. and the landmark cases companion book. a link to the national constitution center's interactive constitution. and the landmark cases podcast markcases.org/land >> as a follow-up to the recent hearings with facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg, the communicators looks at the privacy issues raised by lula o'connor at the center for democracy and lee, attorney and former chair of the federal election commission. >> look at all of those politicians who asked mark zuckerberg questions for 10 hours. every one of them has been uses data mind from american citizens to communicate with their constituents to build mailing lists, to target voters and a lot of this is for good and sound reasons. >> really, the metaissue for me is how data is collected, used, secured and processed by the companies with which we engage in the online world in a very compress hencive and pervasive -- comprehensive and p

nadine strossen and katie fallow, columbia university's knight first amendment institute, watch landmark cases monday and join the conversation. our hashtag is landmark cases, and follow us at c-span. we have resources for background on each case, a link to the national constitution center's interactive constitution, and the landmark cases podcast at c-span.org/landmark cases. >> montana's governor spoke recently at a fund-raiser for iowa attorney general miller. this is hosted by the polk county iowa democrats. it is about an hour and ten minutes. [ applause ] >> thank you, sean, thank you so much. i am karen derry and i am running for the iowa house of representatives. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. and it is my pleasure to welcome you, governor bullock to johnstons. my family and i have been fortunate to live in this community for the last 19 years and it is a wonderful community. and welcome to the great state of iowa. you know, we have so many things to be proud of in this state. the weather not so much today, but -- [ laughter ] >> come back sometime when the weather is as n