Sotomayor Predicts WikiLeaks Case in Supreme Court

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

Sotomayor predicts WikiLeaks case in Supreme Court

By KRISTEN WYATT (AP) – 1 hour ago
DENVER — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor predicted Thursday that the nation's high court will be asked again to weigh issues of national security versus free speech because of the recently leaked classified war documents posted on the WikiLeaks website.

Sotomayor told high school and college students at the University of Denver that she couldn't answer a student question about the security questions and free speech because "that question is very likely to come before me."

The release of the WikiLeaks documents, which included names of Afghans working with American forces, has been blasted by the Pentagon. It said the publication of those documents put lives at risk, while WikiLeaks employees insisted the website provides a public service for whistleblowers.

Sotomayor said Thursday that the "incident, and others, are going to provoke legislation that's already being discussed in Congress, and so some of it is going to come up before (the Supreme Court)."

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[mike_c]

1. tightening the screws of the security state....

:grr:

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

2. Forewarned is forearmed

Best we know and be prepared. Will our lawmakers sell us out?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. Will our lawmakers sell us out?

You have quite the sense of humor.

[Q3JR4]

3. Whatever. The most congress could do is

punish those who leak federal documents more severely then is currently done.

Anyone who publishes the secrets would be beyond U.S. law. The distributed nature of the wikileaks site means that any potential leak could not be plugged without blocking a substantial portion of web traffic.

Any potential new law and any supreme court ruling on such a law would be nothing but bluster.

Q3JR4.

[Hosnon]

5. This can be taken a few ways.

"That question is very likely to come before me" is often nothing more than judge-speak for "I don't want to discuss that topic". Were it not for the subsequent comments about legislation and Congress, I'd feel confident that Justice Sotomayor was not predicting anything.