Unconstitutional, illegal and immoral. United States District Court Judge Murray Gurfein, later an appeals court judge, ruled on his first day on the job in the Pentagon Papers case. Judge Murray Gurfein's,first case after becoming a federal judge was in the Pentagon Papers case. A brand-new Nixon appointee, U.S. District Court Judge Murray Gurfein (later an appellate judge) famously wrote in The Pentagon Papers case, where the government sought prior restraint, "The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone. Security also lies in the value of our free institutions. A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values of freedom of expression and the right of the people to know." United States v. N.Y. Times Co., 328 F. Supp. 324, 331 (S.D.N.Y. 1971), affirmed, New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971).
Or as the St. Augustine Record editorialized November 19, 2006 about City officials' anger and hostility toward me after we caught the City dumping a landfill in a lake, some of our St Johns County Commissioners need "thicker skins."
“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." See West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943).In the midst of World War II, our Supreme Court reversed an erroneous decision that let Jehovah's Witnesses children be punished for refusing to salute the flag
The decision was written by Justice Robert Houghwot Jackson, who was later our prosecutor at Nuremberg. One more time: “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein."
From New York Times:
Pentagon to limit journalists’ access unless they agree not to publish certain information
Pentagon to limit journalists’ access unless they agree not to publish certain information
The unprecedented move is the strongest action yet in restricting how reporters cover the country’s largest federal agency.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during the POW/MIA National Recognition Day Ceremony at the Pentagon on Sept. 19. | Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP
The Pentagon on Friday said reporters who cover the agency could access the building only if they agreed not to publish certain information, an unprecedented move that demands media outlets hand the department vast control over what they publish.
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell, in a Friday evening email, said journalists could continue to enter the Defense Department only if they sign a note saying they will not publish classified information or some less sensitive documents that are not explicitly labeled as government secrets. The rule will take effect over the next two to three weeks.
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We gotta get these Nazis out of civic life for good and keep them out.
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