Monday, May 19, 2014

Minor Historical Error In Kagan's Town of Greece Dissent Has Been Corrected

Yair Rosenberg writing today at Tablet Magazine notes that the previously reported minor error in American religious history that had crept into Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's dissent in the Town of Greece case earlier this month has now been corrected. The version of the opinion now on the Supreme Court's website correctly refers to Newport, Rhode Island as "one of the first communities of American Jews" rather than as "the first".