{"id":2291,"date":"2009-11-23T14:03:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2009-11-23T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T19:07:10","slug":"predicting-the-future-of-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2291\/predicting-the-future-of-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting the Future of Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days, the future of free speech looks grim.\u00a0  However, the <a href=\"http:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2009\/11\/fantasy_scotus_predictions_for.php\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WSJ and FantasySCOTUS<\/span><\/a> predict that the government will lose in the pivotal case of <a href=\"http:\/\/supremecourtus.gov\/oral_arguments\/argument_transcripts\/08-205%5BReargued%5D.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 286 predictions, 67 percent believe that the Supreme Court will overrule the D.C. Circuit Court and find that \u201cHillary: The Movie\u201d is not covered by current campaign finance regulations.\u00a0  The final verdict: free speech wins.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the good news.\u00a0  The bad news is that these are just predictions and the longer the Court sits on the opinion, the more free speech suffers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2009\/11\/11\/like-to-gamble-know-the-supreme-court-its-your-lucky-day\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/joshblogs.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/17\/fantasyscotus-net-predictions-of-the-10th-justice-citizens-united-v-fec-hilary-movie-case\/#more-2228\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/component\/search\/free%2Bspeech?ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, the future of free speech looks grim.\u00a0 However, the WSJ and FantasySCOTUS predict that the government will lose in the pivotal case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Of the 286 predictions, 67 percent believe that the Supreme Court will overrule the D.C. Circuit Court and find that \u201cHillary: The Movie\u201d is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,503,92],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-citizens-united-v-fec","tag-free-speech","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2293,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}