Ranking the Justices on Supreme Court including Scalia

[OSR stands with Israel]

Heres Mine


1. John Roberts
2. Anthony Kennedy
3. Stephen Breyer
4. Elena Kagan
5. Antonin Scalia
6. Sam Alito
7. Sonia Sotomayor
8. Ruth Ginsburg
9. Clarence Thomas

Only 1-2 on my list are good and 5-9 are bad-god awful
 

[Lyin' Steve]

Roberts, Scalia will ultimately go down in history as B-tier justices.
Kennedy, Kagan, Breyer are C-tier.
No opinion on Alito.  He's a pretty quiet dude.  Seems like a solid guy from what little I've heard from him.
Sotomayor, Ginsburg, and particularly Thomas are hacks.

We don't have anyone up to the level of true A-tier legends like Oliver Wendell Holmes or Byron White and haven't since O'Connor retired.

[Santander]

1. Scalia
2. Thomas
3. Roberts
4. Alito
5. Kennedy
6. Breyer
7. Sotomayor
8. Kagan
9. Ginsburg

[Mr. Smith]

1. Sotomayor
2. Kagan
3. Ginsburg
4. Breyer
5. Roberts
6. Kennedy
7. Scalia
8. Alito
9. Thomas

[Illiniwek]

Not a perfect list, but:

1. Ginsburg
2. Breyer
3. Sotomayor
4. Kagen
5. Roberts
6. Kennedy
7. Thomas
8. Scalia
9. Alito

[progressive85]

1 (best)  Ruth Bader Ginsburg
2.  Elena Kagan
3.  Anthony Kennedy
4.  Sonia Sotomayor
5.  Stephen Breyer
6.  John Roberts
7.  Samuel Alito
8.  Clarence Thomas
9. (worst) Antonin Scalia

[LLR]

1. Kagan
2. Breyer
3. Ginsburg
4. Sotomayor
5. Grave injury
6. Kennedy
7. Roberts
8. Alito
9. Sudden death
10. Eternal pain and suffering
11. The loss of all loved ones and eternal torture in solitary confinement
12. Thomas
13. Scalia

[100% pro-life no matter what]

1. Scalia
2. Thomas
3. Alito
4. Roberts
5. Kennedy
6. Breyer
7. Kagan
8. Sotomayor
9. Ginsburg

[Kingpoleon]

1. Anthony Kennedy
2. Stephen Breyer
3. John Roberts
4. Samuel Alito
5. Ruth Bader Ginsburg/Clarence Thomas

Ginsburg and Thomas seem like good people.

[politicallefty]

As a liberal, Scalia was far from the worst.

1. Ginsburg
2. Sotomayor
3. Kagan
4. Breyer
5. Kennedy
6. Roberts
7. Scalia
8. Thomas
9. Alito

[SATW]

1. Scalia
2. Roberts
3. Kennedy
4. Alito
5. Thomas
6. Ginsburg
7. Breyer
8. Kagan
9. Sotomayor

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

1. Scalia
2. Alito
3. Ginsburg
4. Roberts
5. Kennedy
6. Sotomayor
7. Thomas
8. Kagan
9. Breyer


2-4 are close. The rest are clear cut.

[Mr. Reactionary]

1. Thomas
2. Scalia
3. Roberts
4. Alito
5. Kagan
6. Kennedy
7. Sotomayor
8. Ginsburg
9. Empty seat

[Classic Conservative]

1. Scalia
2. Thomas
3. Alito
4. Roberts
5. Kennedy
6. Breyer
7. Kagan
8. Sotomayor
9. Ginsburg

[Young Conservative]

1. Scalia
2. Alito
3. Thomas
4. Roberts
5. Kennedy
6. Breyer
7. Kagan
8. Sotomayor
9. Ginsburg

[mencken]

The Great
Clarence Thomas
Antonin Scalia

The Tolerable
Samuel Alito

The Quislings
John Roberts
Anthony Kennedy
Stephen Breyer

The Egregious
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Elena Kagan
Sonia Sotomayor

[Sir Mohamed]

Elena Kegan
Sonia Sotomayor
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephan Breyer
John Roberts
Anthony Kennedy
Samuel Alito
Clarence Thomas
Antonin Scalia

[Associate Justice PiT]

1. Scalia
2. Alito
3. Roberts
4. Kennedy
5. Thomas
6. Breyer
7. Sotomayor
8. Kagan
9. Ginsburg

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

1. Roberts
2. Kennedy
3. Breyer
4. Alito
5. Sotomayor
6. Kagan
7. Scalia
8. Ginsburg
9. Thomas

[HisGrace]

1. Kennedy
2. Breyer
3. Roberts
4. Alito
5. Scalia
6. Thomas
7. Kagan
8. Ginsburg
9. Sotomayor

Kennedy is the best by a huge margin.

[republicanbayer]

1. Kennedy
2. Roberts
3. Breyer
4. Alito
5. Kagan
6. Thomas
7. Ginsburg
8. Scalia
9. Sotomayor

[Xing]

1. Ginsburg
2. Breyer
3. Sotomayor
4. Kagan
5. Kennedy
6. Roberts
7. Alito
8. Scalia
9. Thomas

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

The Great
Clarence Thomas
Antonin Scalia

The Tolerable
Samuel Alito

The Quislings
John Roberts
Anthony Kennedy
Stephen Breyer

The Egregious
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Elena Kagan
Sonia Sotomayor

Pretty much this.  What I learned from this list is liberals hate the Constitution as written.

[politicallefty]

Pretty much this.  What I learned from this list is liberals hate the Constitution as written.

Not at all. The actual text of the Constitution is the very foundation of my interpretations of the document itself. The text says what is says, but I do not believe we are permanently shackled the original intent. By the ultimate logic of Originalism, constitutional protections unless otherwise stated would only apply to white male property owners. Freedom of speech, as the Founders intended, surely did not apply to men and women equally, despite the text.

I view the Equal Protection Clause in a similar light. I know and have read the text of the Fourteenth Amendment. I believe the larger principles are static over time. Facts can and do change over time. That's ultimately the reason why I believe the outcome of Obergefell was the logical answer to a textualist reading of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Constitution in its present form does not tolerate subjugating discriminating against a class or identity.

To those that read the Fourteenth Amendment in such a limiting manner (such as only for racial issues), why do you not also limit the Second Amendment to the intent of the Founders? Nowhere in the Equal Protection Clause is there anything limiting its protections to just race. If there was such a limitation, it surely would have been included in the text itself.

[Sedona]

1. Ginsburg (Gotta love the Notorious RBG)
2. Breyer
3. Sotomayor
4. Kagan
5. Kennedy (I would like to put him higher, but Bush v. Gore is really a dealbreaker)
6. Scalia (I might disagree with him on basically everything, but I can't help but respect him)
7. Roberts
8. Alito
9. Thomas (People who sexually harass women are generally bad)