Minnesota Law Weekly | Episode 25: Government Can’t Use Its Investigatory Power to Punish Citizens’ Speech

In this episode of Minnesota Law Weekly, James Dickey of the Upper Midwest Law Center discusses a common theme in some of their cases: the government can’t use its investigatory power to punish citizens for speaking on politics.

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