At American law schools, a fresh fuss over freedom of speech
A botched event at Stanford rekindles controversy
“DO YOU sodomise your wife?” When a law student posed this query to Antonin Scalia during a Q&A at New York University in 2005, the audience was shocked. But the event resumed and the impertinent question to the Supreme Court justice was not quite a non sequitur: two years earlier the arch-conservative had written a strident dissent defending the constitutionality of laws banning sodomy.
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