Syracuse: Roberts stresses independent judges
Posted by John O'Brien
September 19, 2007

The words of the First Amendment alone won't guarantee anyone the rights to free speech, the country's top judge said this afternoon at Syracuse University.

Those protections are only as strong as the independence of the judges sworn to protect the Constitution, said Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in a speech at SU's Hendricks Chapel.

Roberts made his remarks at the keynote address of the dedication of the third building in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications complex. The First Amendement is etched in glass in 6-foot letters on the outside of the building. the rest