This is the true conservative legacy

[drwex]

Obedience to authority trumps freedom. http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/25/free.speech/

The saddest part of this is not that we (those who think free speech is important) lost, but that we lost 6-3. Scalito were a foregone conclusion. The drugs bogeyman scares them beyond reason. Roberts always kowtows to authority over individuals. But that's only four votes. The true sadnesses here are Kennedy and Breyer, either of whom could have gone the other way.(*) Breyer wrote a concurrence, but that's cold comfort now.

One takeaway message here is that we need at least two new appointments by a more open-minded president to have any hope of seeing personal rights begin to re-ascend. Meanwhile we're in for a very bad ride.

(*) No idea why, at this point. law.com doesn't have any analyses up as of this moment. I expect some will emerge.

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[drwex]

Example that proves the rule. The fact that they publicly disagreed on one case just points up how rare that occurrence is. If they regularly had different opinions we wouldn't find that one case so remarkable. The point is still true: they vote together and if you can predict one vote you can predict all three.