“I\u2019ve said it many times before \u2014 these sex offender cases are of the deepest importance, not because of any special concern we might have for convicted sex offenders but because they\u2019re the despised minority du jour, subject to the harshest treatment that legislators and law enforcement officials can dream up, and unless the courts stand up and make it clear that there are lines the government cannot cross without running afoul of the Constitution, government action will become more and more abusive, and then all of our rights are at risk. A shame that the NC court didn\u2019t view things that way.”<\/p>\n
Read the op-ed<\/a> by David Post in the Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “I\u2019ve said it many times before \u2014 these sex offender cases are of the deepest importance, not because of any special concern we might have for convicted sex offenders but because they\u2019re the despised minority du jour, subject to the harshest treatment that legislators and law enforcement officials can dream up, and unless the courts… Continue reading First Amendment woes in North Carolina<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5218,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions\/5218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}