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Article: SCALIA PRAISES AND SUSPENDS CONSTITUTION.(Editorial)(Editorial)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2004
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia provided an ironic lesson in constitutional rights Wednesday during a talk to students at Presbyterian Christian High School in Hattiesburg, Miss.
"You may wonder what makes our Constitution so special," he told the students. "I am here to persuade you that our Constitution is something extraordinary, something to revere."
But equally extraordinary was the arrogance Scalia displayed when a constitutional right conflicted with his personal preference.
During Scalia's speech, a federal marshal assigned to protect the justice approached two reporters who were recording the speech. The marshal erased the ...