[Crossposted from www.hiramhover.typepad.com]
The U.S. Supreme Court should stop publishing its decisions because doing so "misinforms" the public, Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia declared in a rare interview this weekend.
The announcement followed Scalia's remarks in April, when he told an audience at the National Archives that televising oral arguments before the court would "misinform" the public.
"I wouldn't mind having the proceedings of the court, not just audioed, but televised, if I thought it would only go out on a channel that everyone would watch gavel to gavel," Scalia said. "But if you send it out on C-SPAN, what will happen is for every one person who sees it on C-SPAN gavel to gavel so they can really understand what the court is about, what the whole process is, 10,000 will see 15-second takeouts on the network news, which, I guarantee you, will be uncharacteristic of what the court does. So I have come to the conclusion that it will misinform the public rather than inform the public to have our proceedings televised."
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