The disease spreads

The Mississippi Supreme Court has banned the publication of a dissent by one of its own justices.

In other words, Presiding Justice Oliver Diaz of Ocean Springs disagreed with a court decision and wanted to write about it. His fellow judges said, no, he couldn’t and they apparently stopped the court clerk from filing Diaz’s statement into the record.

Diaz's document also wasn’t made available to the public, as every other order and dissent are.

"My job as a Supreme Court justice is to write opinions and dissents, when necessary," Diaz said later Thursday. "I was prevented from doing so by a majority of the court."

The new American freedom, championed by the Bush administration, to be able to silence those (for now, in government) whose views differ from that of those in power, is gaining a rabid following throughout the land, it seems.
(h/t Notes From Underground)