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Scalia's charm offensive: more charm than offensive

By Mark Obbie

You gotta love him. I've mentioned recently Antonin Scalia's surprising embrace of high-profile appearances (here and here), but I didn't appreciate what he could do with this forum until I watched C-Span's Students & Leaders show aired last Wednesday (I recorded it and finally got to it tonight). Scalia is at his lucid, incorrigible, irrepressible best. Some of what he said made me want to climb through the TV screen and throttle him. But make no mistake: These students were privileged to discuss the Constitution and the Court with a great mind, someone whose love of language and the law is clear and invigorating. I truly wish more Americans could see their justices in such a setting.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on April 13, 2008 (boomark / email).