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New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Elena Kagan's Censorious Tendencies

As solicitor general, Elena Kagan has an obligation to defend federal laws against constitutional challenges. But Senior Editor Jacob Sullum argues that the Supreme Court nominee's pro-censorship positions in two recent cases went beyond the call of duty. Together with some of her academic writings, he says, Kagan's arguments in these cases provide grounds to worry that she will be even less inclined to support freedom of speech than John Paul Stevens, the justice she would replace.

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