In “Judicial Speech Codes,” George Will writes about restrictions on political speech in Minnestota’s judicial elections:

The justices of the state Supreme Court have created a speech code that controls the conduct of candidates for that court. Does that not trouble Minnesota’s fine-tuners of ‘appearances’?

When the dust settles from the terrorism crisis, attention should be paid to the perversely selective concern some people have shown these past few months about civil liberties. The same sort of people who insist that unlawful noncitizen belligerents be accorded the full panoply of legal protections accorded to Americans accused of burglary are simultaneously eager to abridge Americans’ core First Amendment right, that of unrestricted political speech.

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