WASHINGTON – Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, who were on opposite sides in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Tuesday, both appeared to channel the late Justice Antonin Scalia with citations from his 2012 book about statutory interpretation.
The dueling mentions of “Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts” by Scalia and co-author Bryan Garner came in Lockhart v. United States, 14-8358, a challenge to the federal law relating to child pornography that originated in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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