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Law's Raymond Ku discusses legality of JD Vance public booing

MEDIA | August 26, 2025
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JD Vance's brutal public booing is prompting quite the strong reaction online

HuffPost: Raymond Ku, the John Homer Kapp Professor of Law at the School of Law, said that booing or heckling Vice President JD Vance is generally protected by the First Amendment. Ku noted that only “true threats” or direct “fighting words” could cross legal lines, but couch-related insults or chants of criticism remain constitutionally protected speech, despite potential government pushback.

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