Scalia's Finest Opinion: "...But this wolf comes as a wolf."... A look back at his influential dissent on the ­independent counsel law.

By Terry Eastland executive editor at The Weekly Standard: Mar 21, 2016

"The late justice Antonin Scalia thought his best opinion was his dissent in Morrison v. Olson, a case decided on June 29, 1988, when he was finishing just his second term on the Supreme Court. 

At issue was the constitutionality of the independent counsel law, first passed in 1978. 
By a vote of 7-to-1 (Anthony Kennedy recused), with Chief Justice William Rehnquist writing, the Court upheld the statute. 

Only Scalia was in dissent. In 1999, however, Congress declined to reauthorize the law. Scalia’s remarkable opinion influenced that eventual result, demonstrating just how important a single justice can be. "

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