Volume 52, Number 12 · July 14, 2005
Privilege & the Press
By Anthony Lewis
Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment
by Floyd Abrams
Viking, 306 pp., $25.95
Nowadays that statement might be cited by right-wing critics of the courts as a shocking illustration of 'judicial activism.' Chief Justice Hughes, as he later became, made it as a statement of fact. He added, 'and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.'
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