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Clarence Thomas Thinks Teenagers Have No Free Speech Rights « Student Activism

Clarence Thomas Thinks Teenagers Have No Free Speech Rights « Student Activism

Clarence Thomas Thinks Teenagers Have No Free Speech Rights

Yesterday the Supreme Court struck down a California law banning the sale of certain video games to children without their parents’ consent, and Justice Clarence Thomas disagreed. In a long and history-heavy dissent, he argued that minors properly have no First Amendment rights to read or view anything that their parents have not consented to let them access.

Strikingly, though, his dissent went even further, arguing that in early America — and thus, by his reading of the