"Around this time, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said of Scalia, "I love him. But sometimes I'd like to strangle him." Justice John Paul Stevens, the eldest member of the bench, added separately, "I think everybody respects Nino's wonderful writing ability and his style and all the rest. But everybody on the Court from time to time has thought he was unwise to take such an extreme position, both in tone and position." Stevens, who expressed fondness for Scalia even when Scalia was his most rhetorically overdramatic, later elaborated, "If he thinks a position is totally indefensible, he'll say so. And sometimes I think his rhetoric is stronger than what is justified or what is actually persuasive. He's got to have the last word. But is it really worth it?""
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