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• The phony quotes keep coming i and they go viral before even very quick corrections.
  • via Althouse
  • Yesterday, Yale lawprof Jack Balkin had to backtrack:As I suspected, Justice Scalia did not say he would have dissented in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. The newspaper account is incorrect and took his remarks out of context.Although Pro…
• Justices Breyer, Scalia Wrangle over Interpreting the Constitution
  • via ACS Blog
  • In a debate over interpreting the Constitution between Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer, Scalia robustly defended his believe in "originailsm," and Breyer countered that Scalia's approach would likely lead to results in…
• Brown, Plessy, Whatever -- By: Ed Whelan
  • via Bench Memos on National Review Online
  • Given Justice Scalias longstanding position (set forth, among other places, in this New Yorker interview) that the Court in Brown v. Board of Education reached the right result, I was surprised to see this summary of a newspaper article conten…
• False Claim About Justice Scalia from Liberal Reporter: No, He Didnt Say He Would Have Voted to Uphold Segregation
  • via OpenMarket.org
  • Liberals are busy sending each other twitters falsely claiming that Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the more conservative members of the Supreme Court, said that he would have voted to uphold school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education (1…
• False Claim About Justice Scalia from Liberal Reporter: No, He Didnt Say He Would Have Voted to Uphold Segregation
  • via CEI
  • Liberals are busy sending each other twitters falsely claiming that Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the more conservative members of the Supreme Court, said that he would have voted to uphold school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education (1…
• Brown, Plessy, Whatever -- By: Ed Whelan
  • via The Corner on National Review Online
  • Given Justice Scalia's longstanding position (set forth, among other places, in this New Yorker interview) that the Court in Brown v. Board of Education reached the right result, I was surprised to see this summary of a newspaper article conte…
• Misquoting Scalia
  • via AmSpecBlog
  • Earlier, an Arizona newspaper, the East Valley Tribune, attributed remarks to Justice Scalia that were quite stunning: Using his "originalist'' philosophy, Scalia said he likely would...
• Scalia Gets Misquoted, Badly
  • via Weekly Standard Blog
  • Be on guard for the day when this anecdote falsely attributed to Antonin Scalia becomes lefty "fake but accurate" conventional wisdom about the Supreme Court justice: Earlier today, an Arizona newspaper, the East Valley Tribune, attributed rem…
• Scalia Misquoted on Segregation Decision
  • via Drudge Retort
  • A Phoenix newspaper has corrected a report that falsely stated Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in a speech he would have dissented in the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision that ended school segregation based on race. (No…
• Reporter Got It Wrong On Scalia
  • via Alan Colmes' Liberaland
  • As a result of a wrong report on what Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said at a recent gathering, it was stated that Justice Scalia would have dissented in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. It was actually the Plessy case where Sca…