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Transcript Of An Interview With The Five Conservative Justices About The Recent Corporate Free Speech Case.

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YR: No. Strychnine will do.

But let me ask you some other questions.

I know that the five of you were worried that if corporations don't have free speech rights, then even the media -- comprised of corporations -- could be stifled by government. And you were worried that our citizens would not know how and what to think if Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch and Bill O'Reilly were shut down and could not tell our citizens what to think. But the First Amendment also provides for freedom of the press as well as freedom of speech. Wouldn't freedom of the press have protected the media?

There was a long silence. It grew uncomfortable. Finally, Justice Thomas said, "Freedom of the press?" Then there was another long silence, until Justice Thomas again broke it by saying, "That's in the Constitution?" "Not true, " said Justice Alito. The situation was getting embarrassing, so I switched the subject.

YR: Now the topic of the documentary in the case was Hillary Clinton. Did that affect your thinking at all? I mean, it's known that you favored John McCain. Would you have ruled the same way if the movie had been an attack on McCain instead of Hillary Clinton?

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