Jeremy wrote:
] Antonin Scalia has apologized to two Mississippi reporters
] who were required to erase recordings of a speech he gave at a
] high school there on Wednesday.

Interesting spin the Judge has there... The previous article says very clearly that the recordings were "seized"--as in involuntarily taken from the reporters. The reporters weren't given the choice or request to erase the recordings, it was done for them. This article seems like it's been through the hands of Der Fuhrer's censors to make it appear that important rights weren't trod all over.

] In a letter mailed on Friday to the Reporters Committee for
] Freedom of the Press, Scalia, calling the organization's
] concern "well justified," wrote: "You are correct that the
] action was not taken at my direction. I was as upset as
] you were."

Of course he can say this--if he was smart he made sure this was never written down with his name tied to it. However, I find it hard to believe that a deputy US marshall wouldn't know this wasn't kosher and wouldn't be doing it without direct orders from someone.

] Justice Scalia said in the letter to the Reporters
] Committee that the controversy had caused him to revise his
] policy "so as to permit recording for use of the print media"
] to "promote accurate reporting." He indicated he would
] continue to ban the recording of his speeches by the
] broadcast press.

Well, it looks like he's going to have to get the fucking clue and realize that he can't actually ban this excepting in two-party consent states. Even in those states there's likely other laws concerning whether or not a public address can be considered a private conversation for the purposes of requiring consent.

RE: Scalia Apologizes for Seizure of Recordings