When I first joined the public service, I was told that are in the early days of the Freedom of Information Act, before there was charging, a common first assignment in administrative law classes was submit 3 freedom of information requests on any topic.
The late Justice Antonin Scalia was something of a hero to thoughtful Christian conservatives, and no doubt to others who thought that the US Constitution should be read as it was written, not as a contemporary committee of ex-lawyers wished it had been written.
Over the last few days since Scalia’s death I’ve been reading various obituaries and appreciations, and taking the opportunity to read various articles and opinions he had written, mostly from before his time on the Supreme Court. In doing so, I stumbled on all sorts of things – including commentary on a 19th century case in which the US Supreme Court was called upon to determine the validity of a curious law which (in the great era of trans-Atlantic migration) forbade the offer of employment in the United States to someone still resident abroad. Taking what Scalia considered was creative license with the Constitution, the Court struck down…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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