Democracy Is Always A Beckoning Goal, Not

The Eternal Struggle In The Law Between Constancy And Change Is Largely A Struggle Between History And Reason, Between Past Reason And Present Needs.

It Is Easy To Make Light Of Insistence On Scrupulous Regard For The Safeguards Of Civil Liberties When Invoked On Behalf Of The Unworthy. It Is Too Easy. History Bears Testimony That By Such Disregard Are The Rights Of Liberty Extinguished, Heedlessly At First, Then Stealthily, And Brazenly In The End.

Without A Free Press There Can Be No Free Society. That Is Axiomatic. However, Freedom Of The Press Is Not An End In Itself But A Means To The End Of A Free Society. The Scope And Nature Of The Constitutional Guarantee Of The Freedom Of The Press Are To Be Viewed And Applied In That Light.

One Is Entitled To Say Without Qualification That The Correlation Between Prior Judicial Experience And Fitness For The Supreme Court Is Zero.

Freedom Of The Press Is Not An End In Itself But A Means To The End Of A Free Society.