If you missed it, I’d strongly urge everybody to check out Justice Scalia’s interview on “60 Minutes” here, which captures his charm and sense of humor, and his love for intellectual combat. One of my favorite parts came when he was asked how he could be such close friends with Justice Ginsburg, even though he disagrees with her so vehemently.
He said:
“I attack ideas. I don’t attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can’t separate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don’t want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.”
I wish a lot more people could understand this distinction.
