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Roger Severino was tasked with cite-checking an article submitted by Joeseph R. Biden – Severinoe was a junior editor at the Harvard Journal on Legislation.
He said what he found was plagiarism.
Cite checking involves formatting case citations under highly prescribed rules and searching Westlaw to make sure the cases haven’t been overruled or superseded. Because I was interested in the article’s topic (civil rights) I read a bunch of the cited cases all the way through.
— Roger Severino (@RogerSeverino_) September 4, 2023
I then read the piece through again and multiple other phrases sounded familiar. Turns out they too were plagiarized from opinions. I believe this merited rejecting the article outright for plagiarism so I emailed the lead editor and presented the indisputable proof. Instead of…
— Roger Severino (@RogerSeverino_) September 4, 2023
Instead, he engaged in “mosaic plagiarism” which entails taking a quote and swapping some words with synonyms to make the plagiarism harder to detect. This indicates what’s known in law as “consciousness of guilt.”
— Roger Severino (@RogerSeverino_) September 4, 2023
Here’s a link to the article from 2000, as published. Someone should definitely read through it and all the cited cases to see if there were any instances of mosaic plagiarism I may have missed. https://t.co/C4Ej12gbdw
— Roger Severino (@RogerSeverino_) September 4, 2023
He went on Fox News to discuss the story.
President Biden has a history of embellishing, lying, and plagiarizing. Well, it turns out, there’s even more plagiarism than we thought.@RogerSeverino_ was a junior editor at the Harvard Journal when he told his editors he’d found more Biden plagiarism. They covered it up. pic.twitter.com/9hY7fA7QqI
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) September 8, 2023
