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 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia downplayed reports of personal and ideological rifts stemming from the recent landmark health care reform ruling, telling CNN in an exclusive interview "it offends me" to hear criticism of his colleagues over how they ruled. Watch the clip, and listen to the interview, then tune in this evening as the man described as "the intellectual anchor of the Court's conservative wing" is joined by Professor Bryan A. Garner, Scalia's co-author of the new book, "Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts." “No, I haven’t had a falling out with Justice Roberts,” Scalia said, when asked about press accounts that some Republican-appointed justices were angry with Roberts after he reportedly switched sides to uphold the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act. But Scalia said it was wrong to question Roberts or other court members personally for their legal conclusions. "The press did extensive research into what would have happened, if what Al Gore wanted done, had been done, county by county, and he would have lost anyway."
– Antonin Scalia may have disagreed with John Roberts in the court's health care ruling, but he says that disagreement never became personal—and that "it offends me" to hear criticism of Roberts, or any of his colleagues over how they ruled. "No, I haven't had a falling out with Justice Roberts," Scalia told Piers Morgan on CNN last night, according to Politico. "Best buddies?" Morgan asked. Scalia replied, "My best buddy on the court is Ruth Bader Ginsburg—has always been." "There are clashes on legal questions, but not personally," Scalia explained. "The press likes to paint us as nine scorpions in a bottle. That's just not the case." He also dismissed the notion that Roberts' decision was based on political expediency. "We are not a political institution." Scalia wouldn't talk about the court's most recent rulings, but did briefly defend the Citizens United ruling ("You can't separate speech from the money that facilitates the speech.") and Bush v. Gore ("Get over it.").