A Piece of Work

In the irony is not dead category....

While attending a speech given by Antonin Scalia, reporters were ordered to stop taping mid speech. This prototcol had not been explained before the speech began and reporters were approached by federal marshals during Scalia's talk.

The reporter initially resisted, but later showed the deputy how to erase the digital recording after the officer took the device from her hands. The exchange occurred in the front row of the auditorium while Scalia delivered his speech about the Constitution...

[Scalia] said he spends most of his time thinking about the Constitution, calling it "a brilliant piece of work."

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