Adam Jay: He’s a good technical writer which is a big “who cares” when you’re a judge not a writer.

Remembering how people would share Scalia dissents and be like “I disagree with his politics but he has a way with words!!” and they all read like if a school shooter wrote A Confederacy of Dunces

When you read him in law school it’s so appalling to see his complete intellectual dishonesty laid out in flowery prose.

100%. I thought (and probably said, knowing me) "This guy is supposed to be a right-wing 'intellectual'"?

He’s a good technical writer which is a big “who cares” when you’re a judge not a writer.

I can see him being like a decent writer in terms of the grammar making sense, paragraphs flowing from one to the next. But he makes so many dumb and unwarranted assumptions to get to the answer he clearly wants.

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