Amicus briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court usually don’t cite comedians like Chris Rock and Richard Pryor.
A coalition of self-proclaimed “boorish and crass” individuals did just that—and made barbs of its own—in a brief that reminds the justices that offensive speech is constitutional. The Cato Institute, political satirist P.J. O’Rourke and other First Amendment advocates filed the amicus in Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans Inc.
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