&gt;&gt;&gt; I usually disagreed with Scalia, but I have tons of respect for the man. He&#x27;s always struck me as one of the best examples of the idea that two intelligent, educated people with reasonable minds may legitimately come to different conclusions about the same set of facts.<p>I didn&#x27;t have much respect for the man or the justice.  As a justice, his interpretations were always based on a selectively warped view of history.  As a man, he issued a steady stream of insults against all sorts of people.  Specifically, he said of lawyers like me (the not-harvard crowd) &quot;You cannot make a purse out of a sow&#x27;s ear&quot;.  And he regularly talked down to anyone he though not ivy enough to share the room.  That sort of disrespect isn&#x27;t forgotten.  Nobody should ever take joy in the death of another, but I will not miss his voice on the court.