Grumpy Old Scalia v. Those Pesky Kids

July 1 (Bloomberg) -- You may have heard that JusticeAntonin Scalia referred to the majority opinion striking downthe Defense of Marriage Act as “legalistic argle-bargle.”Intemperate as the dissent was, derision for Justice AnthonyKennedy’s jurisprudence of dignity and personhood was nothingnew for Scalia, who has been castigating what he once calledKennedy’s “sweet mystery of life” rhetoric for a decade.

What’s new about Scalia’s numerous dissents issued over theU.S. Supreme Court’s remarkable June is how much he’s beencriticizing the younger conservatives who were supposed to bethe heirs to his mantle: Chief Justice John Roberts, he of theObamacare cave, and Justice Samuel Alito, once so close toScalia that court-watching wags called him Scalito.