And with PERFECT IRONY...
POTUS is taking down BIG TECH with a landmark ruling filed by the NY Times!!!
FIVE FUCKING D CHESS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States
New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court on the First Amendment. The ruling made it possible for The New York Times and The Washington Post newspapers to publish the then-classified Pentagon Papers without risk of government censorship or punishment.
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On June 30, with six Justices concurring and three dissenting, the Supreme Court upheld the right of the newspapers to publish the material.
] The Court issued a very brief per curiam opinion, stating only that the Court concurred with the decisions of the two lower courts to reject the Government's request for an injunction.
In its decision, the court first established the legal question with the use of precedents.
It first stated that "Any system of prior restraints of expression comes to this Court bearing a heavy presumption against its constitutional validity".
The purpose of this statement was to make the presence of the inherent conflict between the Government's efforts and the First Amendment clear/
The decision then stated that the government "thus carries a heavy burden of showing justification for the imposition of such a restraint".
Concurring opinions
Justice Hugo Black wrote an opinion that elaborated on his view of the absolute superiority of the First Amendment:
"[T]he injunction against The New York Times should have been vacated without oral argument when the cases were first presented... . [E]very moment's continuance of the injunctions ... amounts to a flagrant, indefensible, and continuing violation of the First Amendment. ...
The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.
The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government.
The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
...Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. ...
[W]e are asked to hold that ... the Executive Branch, the Congress, and the Judiciary can make laws ... abridging freedom of the press in the name of 'national security.' ...
To find that the President has 'inherent power' to halt the publication of news ... would wipe out the First Amendment and destroy the fundamental liberty and security of the very people the Government hopes to make 'secure.' ...
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment.
The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security... .
The Framers of the First Amendment, fully aware of both the need to defend a new nation and the abuses of the English and Colonial governments, sought to give this new society strength and security by providing that freedom of speech, press, religion, and assembly should not be abridged."
Justice William O. Douglas largely concurred with Black, arguing that the need for a free press as a check on government prevents any governmental restraint on the press.[