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Scalia's Scary Statement

Prometheus calls this statement by Justice Scalia the "The single most frightening statement ever made by a Supreme Court justice."

The electronic media have in the past respected my First Amendment right not to speak on radio or television when I do not wish to do so," he wrote, "and I am sure that courtesy will continue."

Prometheus says,

First Amendment right not to speak? The man is confusing the First Amendment with the Miranda decision! Let's see exactly what the First Amendment says:

Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

What is freedom of the press if not the right to publish what one has heard? The good Justice has the First Amendment right to speak. What he is asserting is a First Amendment right to constrain the press' First Amendment rights

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