Some interesting discussion came about from last week's column about ensuring that cited quotes are accurate, both in their content and in to whom they're assigned.

Besides the usual "Kilmar Abrego Garcia received due process" spiel (again, due process relates case by case, not per person; the person in question received due process in a 2019 court hearing, resulting in a withholding order forbidding his deportation to El Salvador and allowing him to legally live and work in the U.S., but did not receive due process more recently when being deported to the one place he couldn't go due to Barrio 18 targeting his family's pupusa business), someone actually sorta paid attention to what the column was about.

Unfortunately, he admitted he used Grok AI to formulate his comment, linking Chief Justice John Marshall's quote to a different case.

Marshall wrote the majority opinion in three cases involving Native Americans, known as the Marshall Trilogy, and in at least the last two, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia in 1831 and Worcester v. Georgia in 1832, he used similar wording (we all do it) when referring to Cherokee sovereignty, but not the same wording. However, the apocryphal quote attributed to Andrew Jackson at the center of the column was tied to the Worcester ruling, as I noted in my........

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