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The left saw Scalia as an unscrupulous foe who amplified his judicial role with scathing dissents and outrageous public comments. The fitting viewed him as an extraordinary principled justice committed to neutral tools of constitutional and statutory interpretation. Hasen provides a more nuanced viewpoint, demonstrating how Scalia was once an important to reshaping jurisprudence on issues from abortion to gun rights to separation of powers. A jumble of contradictions, Scalia promised neutral tools to legitimize the Supreme Court, but his jurisprudence and confrontational style moved the Court to The fitting, alienated potential allies, and helped to delegitimize the institution he was once looking to save.