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Scalia drinks the "60 Minutes" Kool-Aid

By Mark Obbie

Tony Mauro breaks the news that Justice Antonin Scalia will flog his new book on "60 Minutes" on April 27. What makes the news so remarkable, as Mauro explains fully, isn't the PR strategy -- it's becoming something of a Court tradition -- but the fact that it's Scalia doing it. Mauro reports that Lesley Stahl has been interviewing Scalia for the April 27 airing, which is pegged to Scalia's new book Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, which he co-wrote with legal-writing coach Bryan Garner. Mauro's best line: "In the life of the Court and the career of Justice Scalia, this is a remarkable, Nixon-goes-to-China moment." (That's his jumping-off point to a stroll through the history of Scalia's contentious relations with the news media.)Mauro's most cryptic line: that he confirmed the story with an "unimpeachable but anonymous source." Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, is it Nino or Lesley?

Full post as published by Lawbeat on April 08, 2008 (boomark / email).