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A post from DoubleX intern Jessica Dweck:
In an Onion-esque piece of news this week, the New York Times reported
that Justice Anthony Kennedy ordered a student newspaper to “tidy up”
its coverage of his recent appearance at a high school assembly.
Kennedy, an ardent protector of First Amendment rights—and apparently,
irony–allowed the young journalists to attend the event on the
condition that his office would pre-approve any articles written about
him.
Why would Justice Kennedy do such a thing? Two reasons. First, the
Bill of Rights protects speech in part to encourage transparency and
create a Millian
slurry of ideas in which the creamy globs of truth eventually float to
the top. An inaccurate or misleading quotation by reporters with
exclusive access to Kennedy's speech would be nearly impossible to
correct. Second, and perhaps more fundamentally, the Supreme Court has a deep-seated interest in practicing defensive PR ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX.)
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A post from DoubleX writer KJ Dell'Antonia:
I'm sure that President Obama and his wife have done their best to
prepare their daughters for the idea that there are crazy people out
there whose hatred for their father extends to them (although it's not
a job I envy). But it's difficult to prepare for this, posted on the
website (a site so offensive that I didn't link to it) of the Westboro
"Baptist" Church, which has organized an anti-gay protest outside of
Sidwell Friends, the school the Obama girls attend: "Quakers?! Are you
frigging kidding me? You pretend to be all non-violent, and you allow
the most bloody, deceitful, evil, murderous bastard and his shemale
sidekick to place their satanic spawn within your four walls" ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX.)
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Dahlia, I agree—the more I digest Sotomayor's Berkeley speech, the more I also appreciate it.
Where Sandra Day O'Connor was too macho to admit that being a woman on
the high court made her different, and where Ruth Bader Ginsburg is
still hesitant to step too far from that party line, Sotomayor is frank
and full-throated... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)