January 23, 2012

SandBox Comments: The State "Justices Spar over Constitution, the court, the law"

Clif LeBlanc:

"Two of the nation’s top jurists on Friday at USC gave a plain-spoken, humorous lesson in the Constitution, the role of the country’s highest court and the issues that divide them and this democracy.

Supreme Court associate justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer – from opposite ends of the judicial spectrum – spent an hour engaging a select audience of law students, law school faculty and the South Carolina bench.

The public, though, could hear none of the thought-provoking civics lesson. The justices, as does the court on which they sit, barred recording of their talk for publication or broadcast. The same will be true today when they repeat their presentation before the South Carolina Bar’s annual convention in Columbia..."

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