Illustrations by Tyler Comrie; typography by Sean & Eve, There Is StudioA bushy-browed, pipe-smoking, piano-playing Antonin Scalia—Nino—the scourge of the left, knew how to work a crowd. He loved opera; he loved theater; he loved show tunes. In high school, he played the lead role in Macbeth: “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition.” As clever as he was combative, Scalia, short and stocky, was known, too, for his slightly terrifying energy and for his eviscerating sense of humor. He fished and hunted: turkeys and ducks, deer and boar, alligators. He loved nothing better than a dictionary. He argued to win. He was one of the Supreme Court’s sharpest writers and among its severest critics. “It’s hard to get it right,” he’d tell his clerks, sending back their drafts; they had that engraved on a plaque. Few justices have done more to… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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