Regarding the shallow investigation into the leaked draft of a SCOTUS decision, one of the reasons it was so poorly received is that this is 2023, not 1983 or 1963. We’ve all gotten lessons in investigations - good ones and bad - simply by following the news. We’re a much more informed, savvy, and skeptical audience than in years past. W…
Regarding the shallow investigation into the leaked draft of a SCOTUS decision, one of the reasons it was so poorly received is that this is 2023, not 1983 or 1963. We’ve all gotten lessons in investigations - good ones and bad - simply by following the news. We’re a much more informed, savvy, and skeptical audience than in years past. We get a daily lesson in democracy, civics, and the law from reading and listening to news. We’ve learned the lesson of George W. Bush from his own lips: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, uh, can’t get fooled again.” We rightly take few public pronouncements without at least a grain of salt. What is said may be sufficient for the credulous few - as with the report of the Marshal of the Court. The rest of us want to examine what was NOT said.
Regarding the shallow investigation into the leaked draft of a SCOTUS decision, one of the reasons it was so poorly received is that this is 2023, not 1983 or 1963. We’ve all gotten lessons in investigations - good ones and bad - simply by following the news. We’re a much more informed, savvy, and skeptical audience than in years past. We get a daily lesson in democracy, civics, and the law from reading and listening to news. We’ve learned the lesson of George W. Bush from his own lips: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, uh, can’t get fooled again.” We rightly take few public pronouncements without at least a grain of salt. What is said may be sufficient for the credulous few - as with the report of the Marshal of the Court. The rest of us want to examine what was NOT said.