Tales from Mississippi

They keep popping up in the national news. Bob Herbert, one of the few NYT opinion columnists worth reading regularly, has picked up on Scalia's tape seizure in Hattiesburg. This is good news for people who care about silly things like the First Amendment.

When Herbert latches on, he doesn't let go. He is largely responsible for the redress of the travesty of justice that happened in Tulia, Texas. He stayed on that story like a journalistic bulldog.