A sizzling discussion of censorship, prior restraint, libel, and the deliquescence of law under the modem Supreme Court. FF: "How would you have voted on that [the Pentagon Papers] if you had been one of those nine judges?" WFB: "I would have refused to vote on the grounds I can't read fast enough.... It took the New York Times six months to prepare the editorial material. They turned around and they demanded a verdict from the Supreme Court in six or seven days." ... CDW: "Now, it's been a part of the law of libel since earliest times, since Blackstone and the colonial courts, that the state of mind of the defendant is always relevant. For example, punitive damages were allowable if the state of mind of the defendant was one of personal hostility towards the plaintiff or if he knew what he was saying was false."
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