[EL] Supreme Court now seems as bad-mannered as congress

[Richard Winger]

My e-mail is not really election-law related, but since Richard Pildes posted on the election law blog about today's DOMA decision, subject matter constraint is relaxed today!

This morning I read Justice Scalia's dissent in Windsor, and I don't remember seeing such a bad-tempered dissent ever before in the US Supreme Court.  And, yes, at the end, he said, "I dissent", not "I respectfully dissent", the more normal ending line for dissents.  Chief Justice Roberts dissent in the DOMA case doesn't end with either line.  Alito ended his dissent with the normal "I respectfully dissent."

Then we have the eye-witness accounts from a few days ago that Alito rolled his eyes while Ginsburg was reading her dissent in another case.

Richard Winger

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