Government,
Constitutional Law
May 9, 2022
Christian flag case eschews bright line test for “government speech”
“This approach allows governments to exploit public expectations to mask censorship.” - Justice Samuel Alito
In what surely would have been the lede of The Big Bang Theory’s obscure internet program ‘Fun with Flags’ starring Sheldon Cooper, on May 2 the United States Supreme Court decided the so-called “Christian Flag Case.”
The Supreme Court unanimously held that a city bureaucrat in Boston abridged the First Amendment rights of both an individual and his private religious organization by refusing to allow the raising of a “Christian flag” next t...
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