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Justice Scalia's Truthiness And The Virtues Of Judicial Center, Allen K. Rostron
Justice Scalia's Truthiness And The Virtues Of Judicial Center, Allen K. Rostron
Indiana Law Journal
Antonin Scalia is by far the Supreme Court’s greatest wit and most colorful personality. When I choose audio clips from the Court’s oral arguments to play in my constitutional law classes, I would like to offer a balanced sample of views from the left and right sides of the Court. But I cannot resist loading up on Scalia sound bites, because in almost every major case he serves up the sharpest questioning and most imaginative hypotheticals. His judicial opinions are also remarkably passionate and frank. If he thinks a lawyer’s or even a fellow Justice’s argument is nonsense, he will …