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Old 04-11-2006, 12:03 PM   #8 (permalink)
dksuddeth
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
I agree with you, and that's one of the things that I admire about Scalia - his consistency across the issue to decend into activism. I may not alway agree with it, but I certainly admire it. I also agree that the "difficult to amend" sentiment, but interpretation is completely different. They intended it to be interpreted it the way they wrote it - unfortunately, we can't apply late 18th Century printing technology to the internet, so we're stuck having to rely on the courts deciding if bloggers deserve the same 1st Amendment rights as traditional journalists.
not to threadjack, but in a constitutional aspect can you explain why this is?
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