Forced erasures of Scalia speech outrage journalists

CNN ^ | 4/9/04 | CNN

[Piranha]

You're twisting this around.

Nobody is alleging that there was a sign posted or other notice given, or that the tape recording was done surreptitiously.

This appears to have been an inexcusable exercise of arbitrary and illegitimate power by a federal marshall. If it was done at the direct order of Justice Scalia, then both of them were wrong: Scalia for issuing an illegitimate directive, and the marshall for complying. This would be especially tragic as the matter involves a top member of the judicial branch, which is charged with enforcing the laws, not making them or executing them.

[TopQuark]

We are a nation of laws, not of journalists outside the law.

And it is sad to see that fewer and fewer self-described conservatives on this board subscribe to this notion.