[lbo-talk] The lying liars who lie

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Tue Mar 28 14:37:50 PST 2006



> No, but this sort of insertion is standard, happens
> all the time, and it's the sort of thing that makes
> one sympathetic with the Scalia-Easterbrook position
> that one should ignore "legislative history" and just
> read the text of the law.

So Slate (sort of) agrees with you:


>>> Inserting comments into the Record is standard
>>> practice in Congress. What's utterly non-standard
>>> is implying to the Supreme Court that testimony
>>> was live when it wasn't.

Concur?



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