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Commentary: Exploiting Mixed Speech
The Supreme Court has been taking advantage of mixed speech “speech that is both private and governmental” to characterize challenged speech in the way that permits the government to sponsor Christian speech. In Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, a free speech case where the government accepted a Christian Ten Commandments monument but rejected a Summum Seven Aphorisms…
Forced Decryption as a Foregone Conclusion
This essay examines how the Fifth Amendment Self-Incrimination Clause applies to encrypted data. In particular, it focuses on the Clause’s foregone conclusion exception, which allows the government to compel the production of information where the government reasonably knows that information exists. This essay argues that, under this exception, the government can compel a person to…