January 20, 2006

Mickey Kaus gives reason #373 why Scalia and Easterbrook are right about the need to disregard "legislative history" in statutory interpretation:

I wrote some Congressional legislative history once myself once, and my goal was to bury the most tendentious and partisan interpretations deep within unbroken paragraphs of tedious boilerplate, where nobody would find them except our allies in the "public interest" bar.