Scalia's same-sex marriage dissent blasts judicial “putsch,” Ivy Leaguers, fortune cookies

Justice Antonin Scalia is not at all happy with the Supreme Court's decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide — and his dissent shows it. Here are some of the phrases he uses to describe the decision:

Additionally, Scalia took several shots at the writing style of Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion:

He went on to argue that the Court is elitist and not truly representative of America (and gratuitously expressed his opinion that California is not a true Western state):

He even took a seeming shot at his own wife:

And in a footnote, he said he would rather "hide my head in a bag" than join an opinion that began like Kennedy's does, and bemoaned how far the Court has fallen:

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