Arkansas Writers' Project, Inc. v. Ragland/Concurrence Stevens

, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.

To the extent that the Court's opinion relies on the proposition that government has no power to restrict expression [p235] because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content, see ante, at 229 (quoting Police Dept. of Chicago v. Mosley, 408 U.S. 92, 95 (1972)), I am unable to join it. I do, however, agree that the State has the burden of justifying its content-based discrimination and has plainly failed to do so. Accordingly, I join Parts I, II, III-B, IV, and V of the Court's opinion and concur in its judgment.