Not Your Sweetie

Justice Bans Media From Free
Speech Event
Supreme Court Justice Scalia Bans Media From Event
Where He's Accepting Free-Speech Award

The Associated Press



CLEVELAND March 19 —

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia banned broadcast media
from an appearance Wednesday where he will receive an
award for supporting free speech.

The City Club usually tapes speakers for later broadcast on
public television, but Scalia insisted on banning television and
radio coverage, the club said. Scalia is being given the
organization's Citadel of Free Speech Award.

"I might wish it were otherwise, but that was one of the
criteria
that he had for acceptance," said James Foster, the club's
executive director.

The ban on broadcast media, "begs disbelief and seems to be in
conflict with the award itself," C-SPAN vice president and
executive producer Terry Murphy wrote in a letter last week to
the City Club. "How free is speech if there are limits to its
distribution?"

., but also said that government has
room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the
Constitution.

"The Constitution just sets minimums," Scalia said. "Most of the rights that you
enjoy go way
beyond what the Constitution requires."