New Haven’s Removal of Columbus Statue from Public Park Isn’t a First Amendment Violation
From Friday’s decision by Judge Janet C. Hall (D. Conn.) in American Italian Women for Greater New Haven v. City of New Haven:
[T]he Columbus statue is government speech and, as such, AIW has no cognizable free speech interest in it. Indeed, the Supreme Court has directly foreclosed such a claim. In Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum (2009), the Court “held that the messages of permanent monuments in a public park constituted government speech, even when the monuments we
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