Free Speech Watch|All civil liberties must be respected, even in times of national emergency, however, the Freedom of Speech afforded by the U.S. Constitution is arguably the most important. In these days of the so-called “Patriot Act” our free speech is constantly under serious attack. This website monitors the efforts to protect our free speech. It also monitors the People’s reaction to those efforts.

The state’s highest court ruled 4-2 that reinstating Robert E. Henderson to the patrol would violate Nebraska’s “explicit, well-defined, dominant public policy” of nondiscrimination. “From its very inception, the State of Nebraska has been founded upon principles of equality and tolerance that the Ku … But Judge Kenneth Stephan, in the dissenting opinion, said the court majority showed a willingness to ignore the state’s violation of Henderson’s First Amendment rights. …

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