Mailbag: TPMm Reader Keeps Scalia HonestNew disclosures show Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took over two dozen trips paid for by non-governmental organizations, according to an AP story we noted a few days ago in the Daily Muck. Time Warner and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lousiana were but two of the groups Scalia disclosed as funding his travel, AP reported.
Wait a second, Reader RH noted in an email:
[T]here is no such thing as a Roman Catholic Diocese of Louisiana. There’s the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, the Diocese of Baton Rouge, the Diocese of Lafayette, etc. but there is no such entity as [the Roman Catholic Diocese of] Louisiana.
A quick Google search appeared to prove RH right — so I called up the Supreme Court. What gives? I asked.
Two days and several phone calls and emails later I got an answer, courtesy of Public Information Officer Kathy Arberg.
“Justin, it was the Diocese of Shreveport,” she wrote me in an email. “I hope this helps.”
There’s your answer, RH. Apparently, Justice Scalia isn’t as detail-oriented as one might expect. Then again, the guy goes on so many trips, who’d expect him to keep all the sponsors straight?
