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Do Judges Need Protection from Free Speech?

In So Much for Free Speech in the Metro Times. Jack Lessenbery writes:

Geoffrey Fieger, the flamboyant and brilliant courtroom lawyer, has been known to be rude, crude and to say things that are in very bad taste.

Last week, however, we learned that four of the seven Michigan Supreme Court justices are far ruder, cruder, more obscene and ó this is the scary part ó far more dangerous than old potty mouth.

Fieger only calls people names.

Chief Justice Clifford Taylor and Justices Maura Corrigan, Stephen Markman and Robert Young attacked the U.S. Constitution and our right to freedom of speech. They did so by saying it is all right to reprimand ó punish ó Fieger for calling judges names.

There's a whole bunch more and it's well worth a read!

Posted/updated Aug 10, 2006
by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan)