Britt Grant

United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit

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Florida's salary-for-speech rule is a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse in the very places the State's own statutes recognize as centers of inquiry, classrooms where students are trusted to puzzle through ideas that are good and bad, easy and hard, ideally getting ever closer to the truth,
The speech ban Florida's political leaders seek to impose here is different in both nature and degree from these ordinary concerns,
Hearing an idea you disagree with is not discrimination; it is an opportunity to come up with a better idea, or maybe even change your mind,
Because the government pays the professors’ salaries, Florida says, their speech is the state’s speech,
In his zealous and highly scrutinized representation, Dershowitz made a spontaneous series of remarks before Congress that, he says, were misinterpreted by pundits,

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