KKK FREE-SPEECH BID FAILS TO SWAY JUSTICES

A Ku Klux Klan chapter's attempt to force a state university radio station in St. Louis to accept its financial support and acknowledge it on the air has been denied review by the U.S. Supreme Court.

This means lower-court rulings that the station's refusal to accept the KKK's money and give it on-air credit didn't violate the white supremacist group's free-speech rights, as claimed by the KKK.

The station is KWMU, the not-for-profit radio station of the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

A federal trial judge threw out the KKK's lawsuit, and this judgment was upheld on appeal.

While this case offers a contrast to the KKK's successful court challenge that led to judicial approval of the organization's efforts to get listed on highway department litter-control sign, it shows that under judicial review not every denial of speech rises to the level of an unconstitutional infringement of the First Amendment.

And not everything is a federal case.

Somehow, life will go on.