Patterico's Pontifications

7/27/2005

More on the Silly Turley Piece

Filed under: Dog Trainer,Judiciary — Patterico @ 7:17 am



An editor’s note in today’s L.A. Times states:

On Monday’s Op-Ed page, Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University, wrote that at a meeting between Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. and Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Durbin had asked Roberts what he would do if the law required a ruling that conflicted with his Catholic faith.

Roberts responded, according to Turley, that he might have to recuse himself in such cases. Turley said he heard about the conversation from “two people who attended the meeting.”

Tuesday, Durbin’s office said the story was inaccurate.

Aides acknowledged that a question about faith and public policy had been asked, and that Roberts had discussed recusals — but they said that the recusal answer wasn’t in response to the question about faith.

Turley, however, says it was Durbin who gave him the original information in an on-the-record conversation. Turley says he then confirmed the substance of that conversation with another person who had been at the meeting.

Durbin’s office understood that Turley was writing the article and expressed no concern about its accuracy when he explained exactly what he was writing, according to Turley.

He says that he has notes of each of those conversations, and that he stands by what he wrote.

And I stand by what I wrote when I said that Turley’s article was nonsense. I still believe it was based on a lie, which it now appears was told by Durbin. Even if Durbin had accurately recounted the conversation to Turley — which seems highly doubtful — Turley’s op-ed was, in my opinion, silly.

2 Responses to “More on the Silly Turley Piece”

  1. Durbin wanted to start an “inuendo”.
    That was the equivalent of speaking aloud inside of an elevator full of people. Somebody is going to say “I heard that in the elevator” and start from there. Shame on Durbin

    Emiro Burbano (272f5b)

  2. Rip & Read #130 – 2005-07-28

    Here’s what I Ripped and Read in my Podcast today:

    Later, the LA Times contracts the story, after Durbin spun back. From Patterico’s Pontifications we read:

    An editor’s note in today’’s L.A. Times states:

    Rip & Read Blogger Podcast (59ce3a)


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