A spokesman for the Supreme Court has confirmed that Justice Antonin Scalia will be teaching the kick-off class for Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Constitutional Conservative Caucus.
Supreme Court spokesman Kathy Arberg told Politico that “Justice Scalia accepted an invitation from Rep. Bachmann to be a guest speaker at a constitutional seminar for members of Congress.”
“He will discuss Separation of Powers,” she said.
Bachmann has been talking up her plans for a weekly refresher course on the Constitution, to be offered to her new caucus — different from her Tea Party Caucus — and any other House members who would like to attend. She explained: “We’re going to do what the NFL does and what the baseball teams do: we’re going to practice every week, if you will, our craft, which is studying and learning the Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.”
In addition to Scalia, Bachmann said she hopes to enlist Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts to teach seminars, as well as conservative mainstays like evangelical historian David Barton.
