An Arizona judge pens a NYT Letter to the Editor:

Re “Scalia Lands at Top of Sarcasm Index of Justices. Shocking,” by Adam Liptak (Sidebar column, Jan. 20):

My nearly 40-year experience as a litigator and an Arizona Superior Court judge informs me that judicial sarcasm in the courtroom leveled at litigants and lawyers, who are in no position to fight back, is an unseemly exercise in intellectual bullying of the worst and most dangerous kind.

Justice Antonin Scalia is a prominent example of this breed of anger-repressed and arrogant judicial officers whose conduct is partly to blame for erosion of public respect and trust in the judicial branch of government.