Clarence Thomas chides Supreme Court for refusing to hear Kansas First Amendment case

By Anthony Leonardi

Published June 22, 2020 8:08pm ET

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Clarence Thomas chides Supreme Court for refusing to hear Kansas First Amendment case — The sun flares in the camera lens as it rises behind the U.S. Supreme Court building. | (J. David Ake/AP)

Conservative Associate Justice Clarence Thomas voiced opposition to the Supreme Court refusing to hear a First Amendment case from Kansas.

The high court on Monday declined to hear a case involving a Kansas man who told a police officer’s son that his father would be found “in a ditch,” which the Kansas Supreme Court ruled was protected speech under the First Amendment to the Constitution.

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