Here’s an interesting nugget:

“The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed a protest Thursday (April 8, 2004) with the U.S. attorney general, saying a federal marshal violated federal law when she confiscated recordings during a Supreme Court justice’s speech on the Constitution.
The marshal took a Hattiesburg (Miss.) American reporter’s cassette tape and also erased an Associated Press reporter’s digital recorder while Justice Antonin Scalia spoke Wednesday to high school students in Hattiesburg about the importance of protecting constitutional rights.”
. . .
Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the suburban Washington-based Reporters Committee, said the marshal didn’t violate the First Amendment but likely violated Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.”
. . .
At an earlier appearance at William Carey College, a Christian school in Hattiesburg, Scalia talked about the religion clauses contained in the Constitution. At a reception, Scalia told TV reporters to leave, and newspaper photographers initially were not allowed to take pictures.” (Antionette Konz and Ana Radelat, Gannett News Service)

No comment is needed. This is amazing on its face.

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