Has the First Amendment become a tool to promote the conservative agenda? On June 27, 2018, Justice Elena Kagan, dissenting from the Supreme Court's decision in a free speech case, accused the Roberts Court majority of weaponizing the First Amendment--of turning the First Amendment into a sword and using it to serve a conservative political agenda.
The U.
Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G.
Roberts, Jr.
, has decided more free speech cases than any previous court in .