Son Of Antonin Scalia Shares Memories Of Father's Friendship With Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia represented opposite ends of the political spectrum: She was a fierce liberal; he was an equally fierce conservative. But the two shared a deep friendship, as revealed in anecdotes shared by Scalia’s son Christopher Scalia one day after Ginsburg’s death.
The younger Scalia posted segments on Twitter from a roast given by his father on the occasion of Ginsburg’s 10th anniversary on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where both jurists previously served prior to their appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The elder Scalia, who died in 2016, wrote that he “missed Ruth very much” since departing the Court of Appeals, calling her the “best of colleagues” and the “best of friends.”
Christopher Scalia also recounted a story from Jeffrey Sutton, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. Sutton witnessed the elder Scalia’s gift of two dozen roses for Ginsburg’s birthday and asked why such a gesture of goodwill was necessary. The elder Scalia replied that “some things are more important than votes.”
I'm very sad to hear about the passing of my parents' good friend, and my father's wonderful colleague, Justice Ginsburg. May her memory be a blessing. I'd like to share a couple of passages that convey what she meant to my dad.../3
— Christopher J. Scalia (@cjscalia) September 18, 2020
This is from a roast he delivered for her 10th anniversary on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. They'd been colleagues on that court until he went to the Supreme Court; she hadn't joined him there yet—and he missed her. pic.twitter.com/rrgFfNlvJL
— Christopher J. Scalia (@cjscalia) September 19, 2020
