Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:53:25 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Ketanji Jackson Worried That the 1st Amendment is Hamstringing Government Censorship References: <17bed676b63ac4b3$30484$1351842$40d50a60@news.newsdemon.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:01:07 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 34 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-kPFlhIfQXQiCvkUDGGdj4ogBKE5qG6I8EQ8S6Fd2qHOke4UD3TiEKfJJ80XC7YE0aRr6x93G7InLd5m!nLIsIjt22md4hG3xF0jsalIckL7xaZM91sa8EdvFL9pdDU4ijZVLJkEXHScyTy6mazTRP2SEFfPo!m/I= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2554 In article <17bed676b63ac4b3$30484$1351842$40d50a60@news.newsdemon.com>, moviePig wrote: > On 3/21/2024 11:05 AM, FPP wrote: > > On 3/20/24 2:50 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > >> In article , FPP > >> wrote: > >>> Or try publishing National Defense secrets... > >> > >> No, Effa, we already resolved that one and, as usual, your point of view > >> loses: > >> > >> New York Times v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971) > >> > >> RULING: The New York Times' publishing of the national security > >> information found in the Pentagon Papers is protected speech under the > >> 1st Amendment, even during time of war. > >> > >> Once again reinforcing that there is no 'emergency exception' to the > >> requirements and restrictions the Constitution places on the government. > >> > >> (This is one of those landmark cases that you should have learned about > >> in grade school, Effa. Certainly something a self-proclaimed amateur > >> historian should-- but apparently doesn't-- know.) > >> > > And the press is a protected institution. You're not the press. > > A key difference being that the press is assumed to be a responsible > source of information and not a bullhorn. That is not and never has been a condition of SCOTUS free press jurisprudence.