One Supreme Benchslap, Coming Right Up!

Did you seriously think you could get away with asking Justice Scalia a rhetorical question during oral arguments?

Don’t try to answer my question with your own question.

— Justice Antonin Scalia, in response to Ted Olson’s attempt to ask the justice a rhetorical question during today’s oral arguments on California’s Proposition 8 at the Supreme Court.

(We’ll have additional analysis of the Hollingsworth v. Perry proceedings later today, courtesy of Michelle Olsen of Appellate Daily. You can follow Michelle’s real-time coverage on Twitter.)

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