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Argument: Hate crime laws don't violate US first amendment
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- "III. Constitutional Challenges to Hate Crimes Statutes. Free Speech Challenges: R.A.V. and Mitchell. Anti-defamation League. Retrieved 2.03.08 - "In 1992 and 1993, the United States Supreme Court decided two cases addressing the constitutionality of statutes directed at bias-motivated intimidation and violence: R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul4 and Wisconsin v. Mitchell
- These well-known cases have now substantially defined which hate crimes statutes are, and which are not, acceptable under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution."...