SCOTUS April Fool's Joke: RBG's Fantasy Team
A blogger created a great April Fools joke when he wrote that:
The U.S. Supreme Court had agreed to decide whether fantasy sports players had a First Amendment right to use statistics provided by Major League Baseball.
Eric Turkewitz of the New York Personal Injury Law Blog wrote that five justices participate in a fantasy baseball league, but only three decided that their participation required their recusal. According to Turkewitz, those who recused were Justices John Paul Stevens, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Stephen G. Breyer. But Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg declined to disqualify themselves.
Though there is a real case on the matter that has applied for cert from the Supreme Court, the rest of the details were all part of the hoax.
Three clues "were deliberately buried," Turkewitz says. "The post was longer than it needed to be on the theory that people don’t read to the end of things."
I'm just hoping that Turkewitz is on to something. If even one of the Justices is a fantasy junkie, C will have much less reason to holler at me for checking box scores. (Well, so long as that one isn't Justice Thomas.)
Besides, RBG humor is always, always funny.