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Cross judgment

Supreme Court rightfully upheld cross burning statute; racial intimidation is not free speech

Despite critics who say a 50-year-old Virginia statute that makes it a crime to burn a cross as an act of intimidation compromises First Amendment freedoms, a divided Supreme Court ruled justly Monday when it upheld the law.

"The protections afforded by the First Amendment

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