The court affirmed the idea of a vigorous public forum, and that's what's refreshing. The opinion sounds these First Amendment themes. The message is: If you don't like something, there is always more speech.

I have never seen defendants in a major public trial, especially a white-collar trial, so completely ostracized by witnesses with pertinent information,

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

[DNSSEC] sounds like a good idea, but it's hard for me to assess the likelihood of this threat, ... In the pantheon of threats, viruses and more direct packet attacks rate a higher frequency. Those are the ones we worry about more.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.