National Public Radio’s award-winning legal correspondent Nina Totenberg said she admired the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away in February, “as a person, as a friend and as a story.”
In a talk before a packed audience at Memorial Hall on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus September 20, Totenberg recalled a conversation she had with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg about Scalia.
“I interviewed Ginsburg for a book that’s coming out about her writings. And I said, ‘What did you love about him?’” Totenberg said. “Ginsburg [replied], ‘It’s like that movie ‘Roger Rabbit.’ He makes me laugh. He was the best storyteller, the best company. We both cared about how an opinion was written and the words on the paper.’”
Totenberg came to campus as the Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. She discussed “The Supreme Court and the Presidency” in a conversation with Michael Gerhardt, Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor at the UNC School of Law.
In opening remarks, Chancellor Carol L. Folt said, “So many of us gather our news in different ways … but if you’re like me, there’s nothing like listening to the news, and I have been listening to Nina Totenberg for years.”
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Published September 21, 2016.