“Scalia mocked the so-called “Cornhusker Kickback” without seeming to know that provision was stripped out of the law two years ago.”
I heard him say this. It was specifically in reference to whether or not the law would have been passed without arm twisting and corruption, (he used other words). The answer is that it wouldn’t have passed without it.
But when your entire worldview is through the lens of
“liberals smart, conservatives dumb”,
you interpret that as “he didn’t know it was taken out”.