He's famous for his biting dissents, and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia didn't disappoint Friday in his dissent in the Supreme Court's decision legalizing gay marriage across America. This time, Scalia takes issue with the fact that his fellow justices are making social policy from the bench -- not acting as jurists, in his view -- even though they hardly represent America. He points out that they all got law degrees from Harvard or Yale or grew up on the coasts. None of them are evangelical Christians or even "a Protestant of any determination." It is a striking attack on, in Scalia's words, the "unrepresentative" biographies of the nine men and women on the Supreme Court. A New Jersey-born Catholic educated at Georgetown and Harvard, he necessarily would be among this group.
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