article_snippet.sent: This is the section that lets the government deny trademark protection to a mark that is "immoral," "scandalous" or "disparaging."  
article_snippet.sent: And it isn't as if any Asian American groups got involved.
article_snippet.sent: that decision offends me.
article_snippet.sent: This isn't quite Korematsu v. United States
article_snippet.sent: (the decision that authorized putting Asians in internment camps), but that decision is quite unprincipled.
article_snippet.sent: Even worse, that decision gets the First Amendment wrong.  
article_snippet.sent: The majority opinion almost flippantly discards the Constitutional issues as much ado about nothing.  
article_snippet.sent: Essentially The majority opinion says, "we did The majority opinion this way before, so we are going to keep doing The majority opinion this way.
article_snippet.sent: Well, the court does give we a sort-of dissent styled as "additional views.
article_snippet.sent: The dissent in this case also notes that the government should not be in the business of giving out or withholding benefits on the basis of the content of the recipient's speech.  
article_snippet.sent: This is known as the doctrine of "unconstitutional conditions.
article_snippet.sent: Since Section 2(a) discriminates against First Amendment protected expression on the basis of First Amendment content, the court has called for 2(a) to be, finally, deemed unconstitutional.
article_snippet.sent: But, for some reason, the court declined to actually go that far.  
article_snippet.sent: the court merely suggested the court, without so ruling.  