Justice Kennedy: Do as I say...
This is mind-blowing. Justice Kennedy, who advanced free speech when he voted to uphold Constitutional protections for flag-burning, demanded to view and edit a high-school newspaper story about a talk he gave at the high school. In his legal opinions he is wise and just. But in his actions... Hmmm. Yoda, we have a disturbance in the categorical imperative. From the New York Times:
It turns out that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, widely regarded as one of the court’s most vigilant defenders of First Amendment values, had provided the newspaper, The Daltonian, with a lesson about journalistic independence. Justice Kennedy’s office had insisted on approving any article about a talk he gave to an assembly of Dalton high school students on Oct. 28.






