Scalia has one of the stupidest hats for one to wear.

[LiberalFighter]

Sort of reminds me of those Italians during the middle ages.

[Siwsan]

1. I wrote, earlier, that he reminds me of Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor

[jberryhill]

2. It is a Tudor Bonnet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_bonnet

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. To be precise, modeled on Thomas More's

The twitterverse is alive with tweets about Justice Scalia’s headgear for today’s inauguration. At the risk of putting all the fun speculation to an end . . . The hat is a custom-made replica of the hat depicted in Holbein’s famous portrait of St. Thomas More. It was a gift from the St. Thomas More Society of Richmond, Virginia. We presented it to him in November 2010 as a memento of his participation in our 27th annual Red Mass and dinner.

http://walshslaw.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/about-justice-scalias-headgear/

Now, More is very admired in Catholic circles. He's literally a saint. But some also point out that, as well as being a martyr for his Catholic beliefs, he wasn't above sending Protestants to the stake to be burnt.

[jberryhill]

11. Whoops... typo... I meant "Turd Bonnet"

[Cirque du So-What]

12. I think Scalia wouldn't mind

roasting a few of them himself.

[cilla4progress]

3. Exactly! That's what I was just thinking!

I guess it reflects the evolution (or not) of his thinking!

Stuck in the Italian Renaissance. Not a bad place to be, if you are him!

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Very Lorenzo De Medici

That has to be a special order...

[Angry Dragon]

5. He thinks he is a bull fighter

when all the bull is inside

[SunSeeker]

6. Befitting of his medieval mindset. nt

[Deep13]

7. More Renaissance or Reformation era, I think.

Still looks stupid.

[LiberalFighter]

8. I think this would be a tweet we should blast the hell out of.

[DonViejo]

9. Justice Stephen Breyer was shown

wearing the same hat when he arrived on the Inaugural stage, today. Going viral with pics of Fat Tony Scalia will backfire

[LiberalFighter]

14. The trouble with that statement is it isn't true.

It's an entirely different style.

[DonViejo]

15. Oh, I see...

Justice Scalia wore a weird hat, but Justice Breyer wore a different style weird hat. Thanks for the enlightenment, much appreciated!

[LiberalFighter]

18. I guess you are not out much in the real world to recognize typical hats.

[onenote]

19. No one is saying its a "typical" hat

Skull caps are not typical, but there is a historical basis for wearing them. For example, seven of the justices wore skull caps to JFK's inauguration. Breyer and Scalia apparently enjoy maintaining the tradition. Breyer wore a skull cap not only to Obama's second inauguration, but also to bush's second swearing in.

[DonViejo]

20. Yeah! In the "real world" I reside in...

75% of the population lives below the poverty level and subsists on welfare. A "typical" hat is generally known as a baseball cap, carrying the names of a baseball team, or companies, e.g. real estate, cement or a small grocery store that gave the caps to their customers during the December/January holiday season. I guess I should move to the real world of liberal fighters where a typical hat is weird but nonetheless "typical." BTW, how many of those Breyer style typical hats do you own?

[Bake]

13. Nothing wrong with it, particularly since he's in his judicial robe.

I'm FAR from a Scalia fan, but criticizing the hat just shows historical ignorance. There's plenty more to criticize Fat Tony about.

Bake

[onenote]

16. Yep. And in the off chance that anyone wants to know the history of the skull cap

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2013/01/about-those-skullcaps.html

[kairos12]

17. Downgrade

He downgraded from Rehnquist's robe stripes modeled during the Clinton inquisition.

[yellowcanine]

21. Rehnquist's gold robe stripes.....