Freedom of the Press, Scalia Style

"A federal marshal guarding Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ordered two reporters to erase audio recordings they were making of Scalia’s speech to a group of high school students in Mississippi on Wednesday, prompting protests from local journalists who said they were victims of official interference with the press.

As Scalia was addressing an afternoon assembly at the Presbyterian Christian High School in Hattiesburg, Deputy U.S. Marshal Melanie Rube confronted the journalists and told them they must erase their recordings because they violated the justice’s policy against audio- or videotaping of his public appearances."

I guess he thinks he has achieved rock star status.

From this Washington Post article.

Via the Modulator who also links to Eugene Volokh’s thoughts on this.

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