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seen: judicial agenda

Ooops. Spotted in Howard Kurtz’s Media Notes column today:

The Exponent, the student paper at Purdue University, carried a routine wire-service item that began: “Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito told senators Monday that good judges don’t have an agenda.” The final sentence said: “His motive for shooting John Paul in the abdomen on May 13, 1981, remains unclear.”

A subsequent correction, as noted by the Web site Regret the Error, said nothing about the charge of attempted assassination. The item, the paper said, merely “contained a sentence that was not intended to be part of the brief.”

(“Media Hangover” - 01/23/06)