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20-07-2011
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Edward J. Cleary
Beyond the Burning Cross
A Landmark Case of Race, Censorship, and the First Amendment
Edward J. Cleary
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Does
our
abhorrence
of
racism
allow
us
to
ban
certain
forms
of
speech?
This
is
the
simple
yet
subversive
question
that
Edward
J.
Cleary
posed
to
the
U.S.
Supreme
Court
when,
in
1991,
he
defended
a
white
student
who
had
burned
a
cross
on
a
black
family's
lawn
in
St.
Paul,
Minnesota,
violating
a
local
ordinance
against
hate
crimes.
As
a
progressive,
Cleary
detested
everything
his
client
stood
for.
But
in
this
compelling
argued
book
he
describes
how
he
overturned
the
St.
Paul
ordinance—and
convinced
the
Court
to
rule
that
"burning
a
cross
is
reprehensible.
But
St.
Paul
has
sufficient
means...to
prevent
such
behavior
without
adding
the
First
Amendment
to
the
fire." As
Cleary
retraces
his
path
from
St.
Paul
to
the
courtroom
in
Washington,
he
juxtaposes
the
stories
of
previous
First
Amendment
cases
with
a
personal
account
of
the
unlikely
alliances
(with
both
the
A.C.L.U.
and
a
group
engaged
in
defending
the
Ku
Klux
Klan)
and
antagonisms
that
grew
out
of
the
case.
ULtimately,
he
shows
us
why
a
law
that
bands
expressions
of
racism
is
as
dangerous
as
a
law
that
bans
protests
against
those
expressions.
In
Beyond
the
Burning
Cross,
Leary
has
given
us
an
unparalleled
insider's
report
of
a
watershed
event
in
constitutional
history
that
is
as
absorbing
as
any thriller.
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