Interview with Kyle

Kyle Strout is the creator of the blog site My First Indie FPS.

"My favorite thing about my website is the high number of views that I have received in a short amount of time'" said Kyle.

"I would like to continue posting until I have finished the game and shortly after to increase the number of people who will play my game," said Kyle.

"I would like to add video to my blog because I already have multiple picture and audio files," said Kyle.

"I love to play video games. I spend most of my free time playing video games

The above picture is a picture of Kyle. He is 17-years-old and his hometown is Saco, Maine.

His website can be found at the link below

My First Indie

Review of New York Times Co. v. United States

Hello Readers,

Today I'm going to be giving my opinion on the case of New York Times v. United States. This case took place in 1971, as stated in my previous post. I disagree with this ruling.

The First Amendment should not allow people to reveal information that is top secret and isn't meant for the public. I believe that the government deserves a certain amount of privacy in order to secure the safety of people. 

Edward Snowden did the same type of thing. He revealed top secret information and now he is considered a criminal. I think that it should have been the same ruling. 

He stole information that could have possibly endangered people's lives and he should be charged and tried as a traitor. As should the people who helped steal this info for the New York Times.

Chief Justice Warren E Burger said, "the imperative of a free and unfettered press comes into collision with another imperative, the effective functioning of a complex modern government". 

The man who stole the documents, Daniel Ellsburg, was only found innocent because of misconduct by the government. So if what he did was wrong and illegal why is the New York Times allowed to post this information? Because it could have endangered thousands of troops that were fighting in the war.

Feel free to comment with you opinions.

New York TIme Co. v. United States

Hello Readers,
Today I am going to discuss the case of NewYork Times Co. v. United States. The New York Times had received what are famously known as Pentagon Papers. Their official name of the papers was “History of U.S. Decision-Making Process on Viet Nam Policy”.These papers came out when the nation was deeply divided on the war in Vietnam. 
The Government called upon the courts to try and stop the publishing of these papers by having the New York district court order a temporary injunction order to not publish these papers at this time. So the New York Times took it a step further and brought it to the Supreme Court and said that the injunction violated the First Amendment. The New York Times said that the First Amendment guaranteed them the right to print these documents and that the American people had the right to know. While the American Government said that the First Amendment was not an absolute freedom especially when the security of America and it citizens are involved.
The Supreme Court ended up ruling 6-3 in favor of The New York Times. Justice Black said it was, “unfortunate in his view that some of my Brethren [fellow justices] are apparently willing to hold that the publication of news may sometimes be enjoined. Such a holding,” he wrote, “would make a shambles of the First Amendment.”

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Hello readers,
I would like to start with some of the most controversial issues and cases that the Supreme Court has covered. To start off with I would like to talk about the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford. While this is a very controversial topic I believe that it is very important because it brought a lot of attention to slavery and the way that African Americans were treated. In 1857, after 11 years of court battles, Dred Scott's case was brought before the Supreme Court. He was suing for his and his wife's freedom because they had stayed in Wisconsin for an extended period of time, which was a free territory. Many people thought that they would be released because of previous court cases in the cast. But, as it happened, most of the judges on the Supreme Court owned slaves or had family members who owned slaves. Chief Justice  Roger B. Taney said that the framers of the constitution believed that African Americans"had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever profit could be made by it." He said that African Americans were not included under the "all men are created equal".  The vote was split 7-2 and was decided on March 6, 1857

Introduction

Hello readers,
My name is Cameron and I am a high school student at Thornton Academy. I am interested in one day pursuing a career as a lawyer. So I made this blog so that I can share current events and passed events going on in the Supreme Court. I hope that you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoy writing it.

Sincerely,
Cameron Pelkey