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Justice Potter Stewart, in his concurrence to the majority opinion, created the standard whereby all speech is protected except for "hard-core pornography". As for what, exactly, constitutes hard-core pornography, Stewart said "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand ...
The phrase was popularized after Justice Brett Kavanaugh's nomination hearings in 2018. Rainbow wave, a phrase to describe the record number of openly LGBT candidates for office in the 2018 midterm elections (over 400), [57] and in increasing numbers since that year (over 1,000 each in 2020 and 2022). [58] [59]
Justice John Marshall Harlan II also dissented; he believed that states should have "wide, but not federally unrestricted" power to ban obscene films. [8] The most famous opinion from Jacobellis, however, was Justice Potter Stewart's concurrence, stating that the Constitution protected all obscenity except "hard-core pornography". He wrote, "I ...
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously stated “I know it when I see it,” regarding the definition of hard-core pornography. But when it comes to an orgasm, perhaps we still can’t be ...
Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915 – December 7, 1985) was an American lawyer and judge who was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1958 to 1981. During his tenure, he made major contributions to criminal justice reform , civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.
United States v. Guest, 383 U.S. 745 (1966), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court authored by Justice Potter Stewart, in which the court extended the protection of the 14th Amendment to citizens who suffer rights deprivations at the hands of private conspiracies, where there is minimal state participation in the conspiracy.
10. "It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." — James Baldwin 11. "Protest is not the end of progress; it is the beginning ...
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Melody Stewart, a Cleveland Democrat, ... Justice Joe Deters. Skip to main content . 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...