Peter Scheer

California’s anti-SLAPP law, which provides an effective shield to media organizations sued for libel, invasion of privacy and the like, could soon be a lot less effective if Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, ordinarily a strong advocate for First Amendment protections, has his way. In a concurring opinion to a recent decision, Judge Kozinski argued that the appeals court had made a “big mistake” by ruling fourteen years ago that the anti-SLAPP law, with

The Supreme Court is the branch of government that works hardest to be seen least. By banishing cameras from their courtroom, eschewing probing press interviews, and generally keeping a low  profile (except in their published opinions), the justices strive to preserve the fiction that they take their cues  directly from the text of the Constitution, unfiltered by ideology or politics or personal preferences. Like the Pope, the justices, in their proclamations from on high, channel