Here s why not. Prior restraint trashes the fundamental meaning of the First Amendment, not to mention the Arizona Constitution and 350 years of Anglo-Saxon thinking about free expression. The debate resonates beyond the Star and school officials. Prior restraint hurts us all. The founders of our nation and our state built safeguards against prior restraint because they knew from bitter experience that people in power love secrecy.
Tyrants try to kill criticism.
Some of its articles, though, were reckless and racist. A court declared the paper a public nuisance and barred it from publishing. Hughes suggested some acceptable restraints, notably on reports that threatened national security during wartime, comments that would provoke an imminent breach of the peace, or obscene material. Short of that, journalists must be allowed to publish. If we do it the opposite way censor first, then figure out if censorship was appropriate we invite cover-up attempts by every combative litigant and blundering bureaucracy with something to hide.