From a New York Times guest essay by Stephen I. Vladeck headlined “Supreme Court Justices Don’t Like Being Criticized in Public, Which Is a Good Reason to Keep Doing It”:

In an interview last month, Justice Samuel Alito complained about excessive criticism of the Supreme Court. To him, this criticism has not identified discrete problems to be solved but rather represent bad-faith efforts by critics to do nothing more than give the public a “reason to question our legitimacy.”