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Should I care about being (mis?)quoted in a White House press release?

By Douglas A. Berman

While doing a little weekend surfing, I stumbled across this press release appearing on whitehouse.gov from the Office of the Vice President (dated June 9), which seeks to champion Judge Sotomayor's criminal justice credentials.  The release seeks to marshall a bunch of evidence to support the assertion that "as a prosecutor and then on the federal bench, Judge Sotomayor has always been both fair and tough, and has followed the rule of law at every turn."  Both the tone and substance of the press release reveals that, even in what is supposedly an new era of hope and change, the Obama Administration still thinks it is critically important to play up "tough-on-crime" talking points.  But what really caught my eye was how a quote of mine from an AP story is utilized to help make the case for Judge Sotomayor in this press release...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 28, 2009 (boomark / email).