In his tribute to the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Monday, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said Scalia had established a “perfect record” in the only oral argument he made before the high court, in 1976.
Scalia was in fact on the winning side in the case captioned Alfred Dunhill of London v. Republic of Cuba. But Justice Harry Blackmun, who often graded the advocates before him, gave Scalia an 85 out of 100—a few marks behind the other two lawyers who argued. Blackmun, who also made unusual notations about an advocate’s appearance, described Scalia as “plump dark.”
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