Scalia Explains Why He Gave In to ‘Public Spectacle’
On the question of why the Justice has gone public, the ABA Journal quotes him:
“I’ve sort of come to the conclusion that the old common law tradition of judges not making public spectacles of themselves and hiding in the grass has just broken down. It’s no use, I’m going to be a public spectacle whether I come out of the closet or not, beyond T-shirts and bobblehead dolls and whatnot. So if, you know, if I am going to be a public figure, I guess the public may as well get their notion of me firsthand.”