“The public, the court wrote, has deputized the press “as the guardians of their liberty.”‘ And we’re lucky to live in a country where that press can witness immigration trials, at least if they’re in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. I had assumed that it would take years for the courts to undo all of the damage to the Constitution that Ashcroft has wrought, but perhaps federal judges can keep overturning these absurd, embarassing, self-defeating Justice department dictates almost as quickly as they’re issued. One more quote: “A government operating in the shadow of secrecy stands in complete opposition to the society envisioned by the framers of our Constitution.”
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