Gee, what a nice man.

Walter Murphy, Samuel Alito's jurisprudence professor back at Princeton, had this to say:

"Sam is his own man," Murphy said. "He'll never be 'Scalito.' And then it's a gross insult to say in the mold of [other conservative and constructionist justice] Clarence Thomas. Their IQs are so radically different ... We're not talking about someone in Sam's intellectual league."

Jerk, or racist jerk? You decide.

(Hat tip: Orin Kerr)