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crossarmant wrote:While Scalia is at least readable, I feel like he's the Oscar the Grouch of Supreme Court Justices. Whenever there is anyone who disagrees with him, he has to go into a stodgy 50 page dissent about why he is angry... every damn time.

I mean, that's like half his entertainment value.

ph14 wrote:

crossarmant wrote:While Scalia is at least readable, I feel like he's the Oscar the Grouch of Supreme Court Justices. Whenever there is anyone who disagrees with him, he has to go into a stodgy 50 page dissent about why he is angry... every damn time.

I mean, that's like half his entertainment value.

Oh, agreed. However, everytime I read them this is all I hear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyBlOe2cT1Y

Felix Frankfurter, based solely on the name.

For grandiose historical awesomeness - Marshall.

For "How do you look your colleagues in the eye after calling them stupid for 15 pages?" - Scalia. Just got done reading an establishment clause case where he basically ends his dissent in prayer.

Stevens. I had to take a class on the contracts clause. Reading all the old K clause jurisprudence will make you hate Marshall and his colleagues really, really quick.

Brennan. Human Dignity Bitch.

jcschrock wrote:Felix Frankfurter, based solely on the name.

kasparov wrote:For grandiose historical awesomeness - Marshall.

For "How do you look your colleagues in the eye after calling them stupid for 15 pages?" - Scalia. Just got done reading an establishment clause case where he basically ends his dissent in prayer.

Aaaaall of this. Scalia provides the lulz. Marshall provides the awesome. Frankfurter...brings the derpy!lulz.

kasparov wrote:For grandiose historical awesomeness - Marshall.

For "How do you look your colleagues in the eye after calling them stupid for 15 pages?" - Scalia. Just got done reading an establishment clause case where he basically ends his dissent in prayer.

lol
can we get the citation

Louis Brandeis and it isn't even close.

Look at this fuckin hipster:

Flips88 wrote:Look at this fuckin hipster:

LOL

Also love me some Oliver Wendell Holmes:


ETA: we've read a lot of him in First Amendment plus his I enjoyed him calling bullshit in his dissent in Lochner

Flips88 wrote:Also love me some Oliver Wendell Holmes:


ETA: we've read a lot of him in First Amendment plus his I enjoyed him calling bullshit in his dissent in Lochner

I liked his valiant endorsement of eugenics.

Bildungsroman wrote:

Flips88 wrote:Also love me some Oliver Wendell Holmes:


ETA: we've read a lot of him in First Amendment plus his I enjoyed him calling bullshit in his dissent in Lochner

I liked his valiant endorsement of eugenics.

I liked his valiant endorsement of awesome facial hair. Jesus, that is a great mustache.

Scalia, brah.

Bildungsroman wrote: I liked his valiant endorsement of eugenics.

Yeah that whole "three generations of imbeciles is enough" thing. Horrible decision and reasoning obviously. Though I think it's pretty tough to find any justice that didn't write something fucking retarded. Even the revered John Marshall wrote Johnson v. M'Intosh where he completely justified the genocide of Native Americans. I mean Scalia has some quirky (sometimes absurd opinions) like dissenting in Lawrence v. Texas.

Like Scalia for everything but his crim pro opinions. Intellectually dishonest tripe, those are.

I'd say favorite is probably Brennan.

JPS for sure. Love the bow tie. Plus I agreed with him most of the time.

Kennedy

Joseph Story back in the day, he was Marshall's brains.


Scalia without a doubt now.

Rehnquist really makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. On a more serious note I enjoy reading Easterbrook opinions, but he is the 7th circuit.

Sherman Minton.

. . . I have my reasons.

Justice White. He was basically the real-life version of the "Most Interesting Man in the World" commercial.

-Nicknamed Whizzer
-College Class President
-All-American Football Player at UC-Boulder (Also played baseball and basketball for the school)
-Rhodes Scholar
-NFL player (3x All-Pro)
-Won two bronze stars in WWII
-Deputy Attorney General

crossarmant wrote:While Scalia is at least readable, I feel like he's the Oscar the Grouch of Supreme Court Justices. Whenever there is anyone who disagrees with him, he has to go into a stodgy 50 page dissent about why he is angry... every damn time.

If you were right all the time, you'd want everyone to know about it too.

It's hard to pick...I like the ones with personality.

Justice Jackson for his opinions, and the fact that he swanned off to Nuremburg for a term to prosecute some Nazis.

The 1950s-era Courts were the best, IMHO. Minton, Reed, and Burton were known as "The Battalion of Death" because they so rarely voted to overturn convictions. Douglas was a womanizer and married a woman 40 years his junior. Black was a former member of the KKK (for political reasons, IIRC) who had a long-running feud with Jackson. Frankfurter used to write these long memos harassing his colleagues about deciding things too broadly, and would talk for hours during conferences.

I rarely agree with the man, but I like reading Scalia's opinions; he's a funny guy. Alito occasionally brings the chuckles -- his recent Jones concurrence was kind of hilarious.