The First Amendment and Insulting Cops
• The AgitatorThe plaintiff was suing under federal civil rights statutes after a [Arizona] police officer stopped and arrested him, apparently in retaliation for a series of obscenities the plaintiff had earlier directed at the cop. Andrew Sullivan finds an eloquent opinion from federal appeals court judge Alex Kozinski.
"The plaintiff was suing under federal civil rights statutes..."
Holy shit! You mean to tell me that we still have some of those left? Hallelujah! I thought they had all been used as toilet paper circa 2000-?