Supreme Quote

This one is simply bizarre.

The DOJ has apparently required the ACLU to remove a quote from a publicly available 1972 Supreme Court ruling from a brief that contains it. That is what the first of today's DoubleQuotes tells us, and obviously it points to a certain USSC quote which it might not be, ahem, judicious to quote in this context.

The second of today's DoubleQuotes, on the other hand, comes from a significant Supreme Court ruling given back in 1972, which appears to be the perfect response to the DOJ's ruling, coming as it does with the authority of the Supreme Court itself. Perhaps surprisingly or perhaps not, but certainly self-referentially, it is in fact the very quote that the DOJ wishes to suppress.

Truly Borgesian.

Anyone wishing to read the relevant texts in context can find them at:

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=16275&c=262
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=407&invol=297

I found out about this via Orcincus:

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2004_08_29_dneiwert_archive.html#109402054878675118