Tag: Antonin Scalia

Allen Mendenhall: Nino, the Federalist Society Falstaff

When Scalia died, the seat he filled seemed, briefly, unfillable, and reading Rosen we understand why. Some men occupy an office; others, by sheer force of character, become indistinguishable from it. Scalia was the latter sort. And American law, whatever one makes of his conclusions, is the more serious, more literate, and more honest for his having passed through it.