Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. one of the more liberal voices on the court, said she may have disagreed with fellow Justice Antonin Scalia on many cases, but he was a “treasured friend” nonetheless.
“From our years together at the D.C. Circuit, we were best buddies,” she said, in a statement reported by the Hill. “We disagreed now and then, but when I wrote for the Court and received a Scalia dissent, the opinion ultimately released was notably better than my initial circulation.”
She said that although they often differed in their interpretation of law, they shared a “reverence for the Constitution and the institution we serve.”
She went on, the Hill reported: “Justice Scalia nailed all the weak spots, the ‘applesauce’ and ‘argle bargle,’ and gave me just what I needed to strengthen the majority opinion.”
She called Scalia a justice of “captivating brilliance and wit,” and said he was able to make even the “most sober judge laugh.”
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And even the media reacted strongly to his personality, she said.
“The press referred to his ‘energetic fervor,’ ‘astringent intellect,’ ‘peppery prose,’ ‘ acumen,’ and ‘affability,’ all apt descriptions,” Ginsburg said. “He was eminently quotable, his pungent opinions so clearly stated that his words never slipped from the reader’s grasp.”
