Via Jess Bravin’s Twitter feed, comes this exchange:

KAPLAN: Now one last question before we come to your final piece. I have always had the idea that someone ought to write an opera about a powerful case at the Supreme Court. And one of those might be the famous Bush v. Gore over the election in Florida. All these strong recitatives would come out; passionate arias. I don’t know if you would agree that would be a good example, but.
SCALIA: Don’t give up your day job to write that one.
KAPLAN: Well I have to put my question to you though. My question is that if you were compelled to pick the composer that ought to write the music for that story, either a contemporary or historical –
SCALIA: Oh my.
KAPLAN: Who would be the right one to illuminate that, sound track it?
SCALIA: Ah well, you know, easy question. You can’t go wrong with Mozart, you know. If you don’t know what it is, Mozart can do it.