[Rick Lee]

I don't believe hate speech is against the law. It's against a lot of college campuses' conduct codes and I'm sure you'd get a disorderly cite for calling a black cop the N-word (and maybe a bad case of nightstick rash). But name-calling is not illegal. Aside from the campaign finance laws, I'm not aware of any kind of speech being banned in the US, unless it just hasn't yet been challenged in court. Of course, I think it should be illegal for politicians to lie. But that would violate their First Amend. rights.