Scalia, Seizures and the Constitution

Bob Herbert: "I called Jane Kirtley, a professor of media, ethics and law at the University of Minnesota, and asked her what was wrong with what the marshal did. She replied, 'Everything.' Not only was it an affront to the Constitution to seize and erase the recordings, Ms. Kirtley believes it was also a violation of the Privacy Protection Act, a law passed by Congress in 1980. 'It protects journalists not just from newsroom searches,' she said, 'but from the seizure of their work product material, things like notes and drafts, and also what's called documentary materials, which are things like these tapes, or digital recordings.'"

Update: Scalia apoligizes

see also: Memoryblog wants Scalia speeches.