re: #218 Mich-again

I sort of predicted John Roberts would vote as he did last night here.. There is bad karma between Roberts and Scalia. Roberts takes his job as a judge seriously and puts politics aside when ruling on the law. Scalia is just another angry white man in a robe, and he has gone over the top with his far right politics at speeches and in his opinions. I’m not saying Roberts voted like he did to get back at Scalia, but I do think Scalia’s radicalism is an embarrassment to 7 of the other judges.

I think Scalia loves the attention he gets. I imagine Roberts who as you point out takes his job seriously while Scalia seems to be in love with getting his name in the paper and on the news. Only one worse than Scalia to me is Thomas due to Thomas’s complete lack of intellectual curiosity and lack of questions and subsequently the lack of strong opinions. The latter is the only thing Scalia really has going for him over Thomas. I have to admit I had a more optimistic feeling than I had earlier when I heard about Roberts siding with the left bloc on the Arizona law.