The United States does not have hate speech laws, since the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that laws criminalizing hate speech violate the guarantee to freedom of speech contained in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. There are categories of speech that are not protected by the First Amendment, such as speech that calls for imminent violence upon a person or group. However, the Supreme Court has ruled that hate speech that does not fall into one of these categories is constitutionally protected as free speech.Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969)R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377 (1992)Snyder v. Phelps, 562 U.S. 443 (2011).Matal v. Tam, 582 U.S. ___, (2017)
