National anthem as a mandatory game-starter? Florida free-speech test.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : "I think this is going to be a messy place" for the First Amendment.
48% : Forcing a team to play "The Star-Spangled Banner," he says, "does feel like communism."
46% : Yet many say moves by Republicans in Tallahassee to use the power of the state to arbitrate what citizens say, when they say it, and how they say it have put the Sunshine State at odds with the warning contained in a 1943 U.S. Supreme Court ruling penned by Justice Robert Jackson: that "no official ... can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion."
44% : Yet making it mandatory, he says, "does feel like communism."

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