About six weeks ago, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke to high school students in Mississippi. Reporters from AP and a local paper attended, recording Scalia's remarks. Federal Marshalls with Scalia forced them to erase what they had recorded.
Later, when the story broke, Scalia apologized.
Now AP is suing the Federal Marshalls Service. Here's what Dave Tomlin, an AP lawyer, said:
"People who enforce the law should know what the law is, and especially the basic law that says citizens can't be shaken down by their own government."
What gall! Yeah, they should. But what about the representatives of the Fourth Estate? Shouldn't reporters know enough to resist Storm Trooper tactics?
The press has no shame. Or, at least AP doesn't.