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Justice Antonin Scalia Admits He Wrote 'One Of The Worst [Opinions] Ever'

We wonder which Supreme Court opinion the late justice could have been referring to.

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On one occasion he commented, in typical Nino fashion, that one of our opinions that had become an important precedent was, and I quote, just a horrible opinion, one of the worst ever. I thought briefly about what he had said and whispered, ‘Nino: You wrote it.’

— Justice Clarence Thomas, regaling a crowd gathered at the Mayflower Hotel to pay tribute to Justice Antonin Scalia with one of his personal stories about the outspoken jurist.

(Which opinion do you think the late justice was speaking about?)

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