Viewpoint discrimination

{{Short description|Discrimination based on point of view}} '''Viewpoint discrimination''' is a concept in United States jurisprudence related to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. If a speech act is treated differently by a government entity based on the viewpoint it expresses, this is considered viewpoint discrimination.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bloom |first1=Lackland H. |title=The Rise of the Viewpoint-Discrimination Principle |journal=SMU Law Review Forum |date=September 2019 |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=20–40 |doi=10.25172/slrf.72.1.3 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kelso |first1=R. Randall |title=Clarifying Viewpoint Discrimination in Free Speech Doctrine |journal=Indiana Law Review |date=17 December 2019 |volume=52 |issue=3 |pages=355–430 |doi=10.18060/23837 |ssrn=3360691 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ferrucci |first1=David N. |title='Giving Offense is a Viewpoint': Supreme Court Holds It Is Viewpoint Discrimination To Deny Trademark Protection For Allegedly Offensive Marks |url=https://natlawreview.com/article/giving-offense-viewpoint-supreme-court-holds-it-viewpoint-discrimination-to-deny |work=National Law Review |date=26 June 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Viewpoint Discrimination |url=https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/viewpoint-discrimination/ |work=The Free Speech Center }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Viewpoint Discrimination in Free Speech Cases |url=https://uscivilliberties.org/themes/4667-viewpoint-discrimination-in-free-speech-cases.html |website=Civil Liberties and Civil Rights in the United States |access-date=15 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Boggs |first1=Danny |title=A Differing View on Viewpoint Discrimination |journal=University of Chicago Legal Forum |date=7 December 2015 |volume=1993 |issue=1 |url=http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol1993/iss1/4 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Post |first1=Robert |title=Viewpoint Discrimination and Commercial Speech |journal=Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review |date=September 2007 |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=169–180 |id={{CORE output|267172516}} |url=https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr/vol41/iss1/10/ |hdl=20.500.13051/4154 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Douglas |first1=Maura |title=Finding Viewpoint Neutrality in Our Constitutional Constellation |journal=University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law |date=2018 |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=727 |url=https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jcl/vol20/iss3/5/ }}</ref>

==Cases== In the Albanese case, Judge Richard Leon accepted, among other things, the arguments of those<ref>[https://www.politifact.com/article/2026/may/13/visa-misinformation-fact-checking-first-amendment/ Louis Jacobson, ''Trump visa policy chills free speech, lawyer for journalists, researchers tells federal judge'', Politifact May 13, 2026].</ref> who considered it likely that the sanctions against Francesca Albanese were motivated by her political opinions: the judge stated that “Albanese has done nothing more than speak”<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/un-francesca-albanese-sanctions ''Federal judge blocks US sanctions against UN expert on occupied Palestinian territories'', Guardian, 14 May 2026].</ref>.

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==Further reading== * {{cite journal |last1=Heins |first1=Marjorie |title=Viewpoint Discrimination |journal=UC Law Constitutional Quarterly |date=1996 |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=99 |url=https://repository.uclawsf.edu/hastings_constitutional_law_quaterly/vol24/iss1/3/ }} * {{cite journal |last1=Bloom |first1=Lackland H. |title=The Rise of the Viewpoint-Discrimination Principle |journal=SMU Law Review Forum |date=September 2019 |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=20–40 |doi=10.25172/slrf.72.1.3 |doi-access=free }}

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