Is Scalia Grumpier Than Usual?

Allah's reading some tea leaves.

This leaf... this leaf I don't like so much.

Sean Trende, though, made an interesting observation on Twitter today: In the past, Scalia’s dissents in other cases have been grumpier than usual when he ended up losing on the big case of the term — not unlike today’s Arizona dissent, in fact. And that’s not just Trende saying that; that’s a former Scalia clerk whom Trende knows. (Guy Benson noted this also.) That’s weak, weak evidence of what Thursday will bring, but like I said, we’ve got 60 hours to kill. Weak evidence is better than none.

So, this reasoning goes: Scalia shows some grumpiness via hisstinging dissent in the Arizona case. He has previously gotten grumpier as bad terms (for him) wore on, so we should expect he's grumpy now because he lost The Big One.

I don't like that tea leaf at all. Bring some other tea leaves.

One tea leaf (for me) is my general belief that things rarely go the way you wish they should go (or they should go), so... I guess I should be more pessimistic about this.

posted by Ace at 05:18 PM

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