Scalia Apologizes

At 3:40 this afternoon, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia published an apology to the two reporters whose tape recordings were erased last week in Hattiesburg, Miss. And in a letter to Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Executive Director Lucy Dalglish, Scalia said he didn't approve of the actions by a U.S. Marshal, who seized the recorders and ordered the recordings erased. "You were correct that the action was not taken at my direction; I was upset as you were," Scalia wrote. "I have written to the reporters involved, extending my apology."

Apparently, hell is now encased in ice.

Skating even further across the glaze, Scalia also pledged that he would revise his policy forbidding recordings of his public speaking events, to allow recording for use by print media. But still nix on TV cameras. His repentance doesn't extend quite THAT far.