[EL] I meant the text, not the sign-off line

[Richard Winger]

It is the text of Scalia's dissent I was referring to.  I shouldn't have bothered to mention the sign-off line.  The text is nasty and insulting in many places.

Richard Winger

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--- On Wed, 6/26/13, Smith, Brad <BSmith at law.capital.edu> wrote:

From: Smith, Brad <BSmith at law.capital.edu>
Subject: RE: [EL] Supreme Court now seems as bad-mannered as congress
To: "richardwinger at yahoo.com" <richardwinger at yahoo.com>, "law-election at UCI.EDU" <law-election at UCI.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 10:35 AM



 



I wouldn't put any stock in the sign-off line. Justices sometimes say "I respectfully dissent," and sometimes simply say "I dissent." Ginsburg routinely says "I dissent." 




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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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