Quote of the Day: Lock 'Em Up and Throw Away the Key

Perhaps fewer journalistic errors would occur if SCOTUS adopted this practice in the United States...

I thought this was a wonderful idea. Why don’t we implement this in the United States? Until I found out that at the end of the process they actually unlock the door and they let them out.

— Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, riffing on the Supreme Court of Canada’s practice of briefing reporters on new rulings inside of a locked room, in remarks he delivered at Roger Williams University School of Law.

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