The rest of Washington may be beset by partisan strife, but at the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, there was nothing but praise for Justice Antonin Scalia who died in February and used to be a lightning rod for controversy.
The Supreme Court bar convened to hear encomiums for the justice, described by former law clerk Paul Cappuccio as a “gravitational” force who bent space and changed American jurisprudence forever. Cappuccio, executive vice president of Time Warner, said that when he used that metaphor in Scalia’s presence, Scalia chided him for describing him as a “large mass.”
