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So to Speak podcast: The Constitution in the age of COVID-19 with Professor Josh Blackman
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Constitutional law expert and professor of law at the South Texas College of Law in Houston, Josh Blackman.
With much of the country under stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19, what do these orders mean for the five freedoms of the First Amendment?
On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, constitutional law expert Josh Blackman will help us break it all down. Blackman is a professor of law at the South Texas College of Law in Houston and the author of three books, including his recently co-authored book with Professor Randy E. Barnett, “An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know.”
Show notes:
- Podcast transcript
- John Adams’ second annual address to Congress, December 8, 1798
- “The Right to Protest During the Pandemic,” National Coalition Against Censorship coalition statement
- “Are Quarantine Orders Constitutional?,” by Mark Miller, Pacific Legal Foundation
- “If Liquor Stores Are Essential, Why Isn’t Church?,” by Michael W. McConnell and Max Raskin
- First Amendment News 251: Public health and the First Amendment in the age of COVID-19
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