I was not, as one journalist has it, ‘publicly recanting’ The reliably anti-ID left-wing media’s newfound admiration for “distinguished” and “renowned” Judge Posner proves short-lived, now that Posner has pointed out their misrepresentations: Posner thinks some journalists who reported on his sentence about the voter ID opinion misstated his view of the case. “I did not say that my decision, and the Supreme Court’s decision affirming it (written, be it noted, by the notably liberal Justice Stevens), were wrong,” Posner says… “The point I was making in my book in mentioning the Crawford case was not that the decision was right or wrong (I was not, as one journalist has it, ‘publicly recanting’; I had not ‘switched sides’), but that in many cases judges can’t have any confidence in the soundness of their decisions if they do not have empirical data concerning the likely consequences of deciding the case one way rather than another.