First Amendment: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation - and their ideas from suppression.

MakeNoLaw Blog   "I wonder if Gibbs thinks the NAACP was such a sinister group in the 1950s when it fought the State of Alabama over its membership lists.  In a landmark decision the Supreme Court unanimously concluded that the state’s attempt to compel the NAACP to produce the lists violated the right to freedom of association."