Eugene Scalia, a son of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, says, “I don’t mean to be disrespectful in saying that whether people agreed with him or not in the media or elsewhere wasn’t really important to him.”
Tuesday, on Fox News’ “The Kelly File, Scalia said that his father “got used to” the nasty press and critical comments about him. (RELATED: Professors Blast SCOTUS: ‘F*** You, Scalia’)
In the Scalia family’s first interview since the Supreme Court justice died, Kelly told Eugene Scalia that his father “had a great sense of humor and we talked about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and how much she loved him even though they were so very different.” (RELATED: Liberals Launch Racist Attacks On Clarence Thomas After Scalia’s Death)
Noting that Ginsburg and Scalia sat on a lower court together, Kelly explained that Ginsberg “used to talk about how she would react when she read his dissents which were always so biting and awesome and strong and fun to read and she’d talk about how as annoyed as you might be about his zinging dissent, he’s so utterly charming, so amusing, so sometimes outrageous, you can’t help but say I’m glad he’s my friend or colleague.”
Kelly asked Eugene, “Do you think knowing your dad as you did, do you think he’d be caring what others said about him, do you think he’s be caring about the nasty press or any of these remarks we’ve gone through?”
“I think he got used to that. So let me say, first of all, that what has really struck my family and me and meant so much is all the wonderful things that have been said about our father over the last few days, including by Justice Ginsburg, who was a very close friend, among others,” Scalia said. “It’s meant a great deal to us.”
“You know, what we’ve suffered is what everybody suffers eventually, losing a parent, but to have so many people saying so many wonderful things is a special blessing. We certainly appreciate that and the prayers as well. In terms of what people are saying about his jurisprudence, like I said he kind of got used to grief on that. And what he cared about was the opinions that he wrote and joined,” Scalia noted. “And getting it right as a judge. And that’s what mattered. And I don’t mean to be disrespectful in saying that whether people agreed with him or not in the media or elsewhere wasn’t really important to him.”
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