Every now and again a court stands up to our out of control federal government. Such was the case when a three judge panel in New York recently rapped the knuckles of the FCC over their rule regarding expletives uttered on live broadcasts off the cuff. The so-called “unscripted” expletives have long been a source of contention for people who think that the federal government has somewhere, but they are not quite sure where, in the Constitution the power to regulate speech.
