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The Onion files Amicus brief for ‘Latin dorks’ on the Supreme Court to defend parody’s First Amendment rights
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The Onion files Amicus brief for ‘Latin dorks’ on the Supreme Court to defend parody’s First Amendment rights
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On Monday, October 3, attorneys for The Onion filed an Amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, offering a First Amendment defense of parody and humorously pointing out that sometimes, life imitates art.
“The Onion files this brief to protect its continued ability to create fiction that may ultimately merge into reality,” the brief read. “As the globe’s premier parodists, The Onion’s writers also have a self-serving interest in preventing political authorities from imprisoning humorists. This brief is submitted in the interest of at least mitigating their future punishment.”
The Onion, founded in 1988, has been offering parody for 34 years. In the Amicus brief, The Onion noted its ability to occasionally fool people. None of the articles published in The Onion are meant to be taken seriously, but on occasion, some readers have taken them seriously and didn’t realize they were reading fiction.
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Noting the Onion’s Latin motto is “Tu stultus es. You are dumb,” the brief claims:
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