English, 09.12.2020 18:20 marie0321rivera67
Read this excerpt from a news article and then answer the question that follows:
Don't look to the Supreme Court for purple prose
WASHINGTON (AP) (99071391728)
The Supreme Court justices are nine smart men and women. But when it comes to writing, there's not a Shakespeare, Hemingway or even John Grisham among them.
``Trying to pick between the justices in majority opinion writing is rather like asking me whether I prefer Miracle Whip or mayonnaise,'' says Indiana University law professor Charles Geyh. ``You will rarely see what I regard as good writing in Supreme Court opinions.''
[…]
Most of the justices' opinions were no threat to the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and other great opinion writers of the past.
Consider this gem, also by Scalia, in a decision in January involving the Federal Communications Commission's regulation of local telephone business:
``Respondents argue that avoiding this pari passu expansion of commission jurisdiction with expansion of the substantive scope of the act was the reason the `nothing shall be construed' provision was framed in the alternative: `nothing in this act shall be construed to apply or to give the commission jurisdiction' (emphasis added) with respect to the forbidden subjects.''
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Look at the section in bold. What is the reader supposed to gather from this information?
The Supreme Court does not care about this subject.
Regulation of telephone business is a good thing.
Regulation of telephone business is a wrong move.
Justice Scalia's writing is not easy to understand.
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