&quot;there are people I think are terrible&quot;<p>Yes, your own history say you think &quot;49% of [laywers] are terrible&quot; and &#x27;The most useful shorthand is &quot;all recruiters are terrible&quot;&#x27;, believe &#x27;The TSA is obviously terrible&#x27; and say the US supported a &#x27;terrible Pakastani dictator&#x27;.<p>Here&#x27;s a cut-and-dry piece by Richard A. Posner titled &quot;The Incoherence of Antonin Scalia&quot;. Some of the choice quotes are: &quot;OMITTING CONTRARY evidence turns out to be Scalia and Garner’s favorite rhetorical device&quot;, &quot;Scalia and Garner are capable of reveling in absurdity&quot;, and &quot;most professional historians reject the historical analysis in Scalia’s opinion&quot;.<p>For one of many given examples of incoherence, while Scalia says he is a textual originalist, &quot;the eighteenth-century concept of freedom of speech was much narrower than the modern concept, and burning cloth is not a modern technological innovation&quot;, so why did he vote &quot;to hold a federal statute forbidding the burning of the American flag unconstitutional&quot;? As Posner writes, &quot;an understanding of free speech that embraces flag burning is exceedingly unoriginalist. It is the product of freewheeling Supreme Court decisions within the last century.&quot;<p>Here&#x27;s an op-ed by Erwin Chemerinsky titled &quot;Justice Scalia: Why he&#x27;s a bad influence&quot; which starts &quot;Justice Antonin Scalia is setting a terrible example for young lawyers. Ignore, for now, his jurisprudence, his famously strict originalism; it&#x27;s his tone that&#x27;s the problem.&quot; Other parts include &quot;Such mockery does not amount to a legal argument; it&#x27;s nothing more than an attack on the author&#x27;s writing technique. A litigator who compared an opponent&#x27;s brief to a fortune cookie likely would be, and should be, sanctioned by the court.&quot; and &quot;Scalia&#x27;s browbeating is childish, even vain; like a harshly negative book critic, he revels in his own turns of phrase. And his attitude, just like his legal theory, affects the profession as a whole.&quot;<p>I feel more well-informed by both pieces.