[EL] Most surprising remark in today's oral argument in the Arizona redistricting case

[Marty Lederman]

SETH WAXMAN:  The meaning of the word "legislature" that we advocate ["the
power that makes laws," which Waxman derived from Samuel Johnson's *Dictionary
of English Language *(10th ed. 1792) and Noah Webster's *Compendious
Dictionary of the English Language* (1806)] . . . was, in fact, the
consensus definition of "legislature."

JUSTICE SCALIA:  . . . . I don't think it was a consensus definition at
all.  *You've plucked that out of ­­a couple of dictionaries*.

[I was present in the Courtroom and can attest that the last sentence was
uttered with derision.  I probably was not the only one who was somewhat
alarmed to hear that, given the source.]
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