Justice Scalia Tells Law Students ‘Perhaps You Should Revolt’ If Taxes Become Too High

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48. It is no more sedition as that term is understood in US law

than the statement I quoted from Douglas, or the statements thousands of us made during the Vietnam War, or quite a few statements made by DUers in this thread.

You want to believe its sedition because it is Scalia. Just like the repubs wanted to believe that what Douglas said was seditious because it was made by Douglas. But neither statement was seditious as a matter of law and repeatedly claiming otherwise (at least as to Scalia while ignoring other statements that are no more or less "seditious" won't change the law. Speech alone hardly ever can amount to sedition. It needs to be accompanied by some sort of act or otherwise has to actually incite.

And if you can find a case that says that the law of sedition applies differently to a Supreme Court justice than to a member of DU, i'd be interested in seeing it.