The 2014-2015 term of the U.S. Supreme Court will be remembered not just for historic decisions on same-sex marriage and the Affordable Care Act, but also for the dissents that those and other cases provoked.
Justice Antonin Scalia has long relished punctuating his dissents with withering criticisms of the court’s majority, but he outdid himself last term—comparing the language of Obergefell v. Hodges to the “mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie,” and accusing the majority in King v. Burwell of “jiggery pokery,” a Britishism that sent many U.S. readers to the dictionary.
