Posted on 01/31/2006 8:15:28 AM PST by pissant
There's no shortage of historic and gripping Supreme Court stories for journalists to report on these days. Why, then, does ABC News' "Nightline" care where Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was the night Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in?
It cares because it mistakenly thinks it has caught him in a "judicial junket." Last Monday, ABC News ran an "investigative" story centering on the fact that Justice Scalia was absent the night of the Sept. 29 Roberts ceremony, the only justice to miss it. Where was he? Turns out -- horror of horrors -- that the former law professor had just spent the day in Colorado helping lawyers fulfill their state-bar continuing education requirements. He had promised to do this nearly a year earlier, long before the Roberts nomination, and he couldn't manage to fly the 1,800 miles back to Washington in the hour or two before the ceremony. So he stayed overnight at the Ritz-Carlton and played some tennis.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
The horror.
No, the MSM still fantasizes about the "new Camelot" of Slick Willie's reign.
Where is it written that all the Justices must be present? Nice show, but so what?
It isn't. But any fictitious "gotchya" is good enough for ABCNBCCBS
The Constitution doesn't even require the speech to be televised. From Thomas Jefferson to William Howard Taft, none of the Presidents actually delivered the State of the Union speech as a speech--they just sent over a written statement of the state of the union. Even James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, did that.
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