Download or read book A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court written by Craig Smith and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court focuses on the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court and determines their frames for assessing First Amendment cases. In each of the chapters, a justice will be profiled in terms of his or her claims during the nomination hearings and the positions they have taken in significant Supreme Court decisions. The object of these chapters is to provide a rhetorical frame that each of these justices would find appealing regarding First Amendment case law.