“Controversy” seems to follow conservative justices any time they make an appearance at a university. In this case, a law school dean sought the right to pre-approve student press coverage of an impending visit by the chief of the high court.
It was quite a coup for Lewis & Clark Law School to land Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to preside over its moot court competition earlier this month. But the event has not produced the kind of headlines that Dean Robert Klonoff had hoped.
Indeed, it is the lack of a headline — in the college’s newspaper the Pioneer Log — that has caused all of the trouble.
Klonoff and administrators of the Portland, Ore., college pressured the paper’s editor not to publish a story about Roberts’s visit until the Supreme Court approved it. Deadlines passed, and the Pioneer Log went to press without a story about what it would have said was the “highest-ranking federal official to visit LC since President Gerald Ford came to Palatine Hill in 1975…”
Full story at the Washington Post.
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