{"id":15146,"date":"2014-12-23T11:54:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T16:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15146"},"modified":"2014-12-23T12:03:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T17:03:28","slug":"nytimes-supreme-court-justices-admit-inconsistency-and-embrace-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15146","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: Supreme Court Justices Admit Inconsistency, and Embrace It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/23\/us\/supreme-court-justices-admit-inconsistency-and-embrace-it.html?ref=todayspaper\">Supreme Court Justices Admit Inconsistency, and Embrace It<\/a> by Adam Liptak:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 There is an art to admitting mistakes on the Supreme Court. Justice Antonin Scalia demonstrated the proper technique in a dissent last week.<\/p>\n<p>There are three steps to the Scalia culpa.<\/p>\n<p>First: Issue a forthright admission. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Second: Support the confession with a classy quotation from another Supreme Court justice who once had to explain an about-face. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: Supreme Court Justices Admit Inconsistency, and Embrace It by Adam Liptak: WASHINGTON \u2014 There is an art to admitting mistakes on the Supreme Court. Justice Antonin Scalia demonstrated the proper technique in a dissent last week. There are three &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15150,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146\/revisions\/15150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}