New York Times legal commentator Linda Greenhouse analyzes Antonin Scalia's blistering dissents and wonders what "this smart, rhetorically gifted man thinks his bullying accomplishes?" She ventures the opinion that he cannot contain himself because he has become so furious and resentful at not getting all that much accomplished.
But Scalia had a better explanation in 2008 when The Wall Street Journal asked him if he viewed judicial dissent as a form of advocacy.
Yeah, in a way. I'm advocating for the future. Who do you think I'm writing my dissents for? I'm writing for the next generation and for law students. You know, read this and see if you want to go down that road. We'd be better off on all sorts of issues
