Marc Randazza Quotes

I don't really care whose free speech it is that is being trampled. I will stand up to protect them, whether it's Randa Jarrar who I find to be one of the most reprehensible human beings in America, whether it's the Nazi party or the KKK, or whether it's the communist party. Every one of them has an equal right to be there and the intellectual texture of America, the strength of America, the idea of America erodes and begins to grow cancer if we don't protect that.

The First Amendment does not insulate you from criticism. In fact, that's the First Amendment in action. That is how the marketplace of ideas works. We float our ideas in the marketplace, and we see which idea sells.

There is no greater way than to preach your love for the First Amendment then to take on a case from someone whose speech you abhor.

In diversity cases where there is a conflict between the laws of the states of the parties, the federal court has to determine which state's laws to apply. New York federal courts will use a multi-factor test to determine which state has the "most significant relationship" to the legal dispute, and will use that state's laws.

I represent Anglin in this suit. I realize that Anglin’s story is full of controversy, hate, and nationalistic views, which he reportedly spread among his followers. However, the court may be on the verge of creating a dangerous precedent when deciding this lawsuit.

Speech is presumptively protected. And, while there were decisions at one time that prohibited speech that had the tendency to produce negative results, those were thoroughly wiped away in 1969 in the landmark case, Brandenburg v. Ohio.

To the best of the Plaintiff's knowledge, no pony has ever attacked an American politician—and presumably the Secret Service would be able to intervene, should Mr. Supreme try and find some way to break that drought in pony-on-politician violence."

The government should not be in the business of deciding what is moral, immoral or offensive. The section of the trademark act in question in this case is a leftover from Victorian times, and is used now primarily, I would argue, (and have argued) to promote social agendas with coercive censorship. I do not trust any government to tell me what I can and cannot handle. The marketplace of ideas will do that for us.

Responsible journalism is hard. It isn't public relations. A responsible journalist digs for the truth, she doesn't just take her subject's agenda and run with it. That isn't journalism, that's "gossip," and like all gossip, it doesn't do anything positive for anyone.

Neither the Court nor I were without sympathy for the family's privacy concerns. We give far too little attention to privacy in this country. But, the fact is that the judge's order was breathtakingly unconstitutional and this aggression could not stand, man.

Most might think that in America, you can freely publish what you wish, then (and now) an over-zealous prosecutor can put you on trial simply because the government does not like your art. And, there is no way to know if your content is “obscene” and thus punishable by prison, until after a jury rules that it is so.

If you believe in freedom of expression, you have to believe in it for Nazis, Klansmen, pornographers and anybody else you might find to be objectionable...

This [case] looks much more like the purview of the left, at least in the West..." "You see this with people on the right being systematically 'no platformed', not just from media sites, but from YouTube, from Facebook, from Twitter and now from PayPal and Stripe. If any company decides that it doesn't like the kind of thing you have to say, then you are off.

You can not take something that an artist created during the creative process, and then discarded, and say it is an authentic work of that artist.

Dennis Hof has the understanding of what it means to be a patriot," Randazza said. "No matter the discomfort, he will charge on.