When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died, the news media covered the death itself, the political angle as it pertains to the presidential election and the governance aspects in a divided court.

Scalia was a staunch conservative and over decades helped transform the Supreme Court by tipping the scale to a non-liberal agenda on some issues.

The story that may have gotten lost was the very close friendship between Scalia’s opposite on the court – Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a relationship considered “the odd couple”.

But it was what they had in common including their love of opera that prompted her to call Scalia one of her “best buddies”.

The love was returned as Scalia in tribute to his fiend called her “the high court’s counterweight”.  Remember now, we live in a divisive world especially in politics and government.

Scalia made it even more real when he said, “What only her colleagues know is that her suggestions improve the opinions the rest of us write, and that she is a source of collegiality and good judgment in all our work.”

Ginsburg said, “I disagreed with most of what he said, but  I loved the way he said it”.

Years ago, Scalia named Ginsburg as the person with whom he would want to be stranded on a desert island.

Scalia once wrote a scathing dissenting opinion and then serenaded Ginsburg with his rendition of Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A Changin”.

It was Ginsburg who once said “”I love him, but sometimes I’d like to strangle him”.

It is easy to be friends when you have everything in common and no points of disagreement.

But to be loved for who you are and not whether you agree with each other is the friend we wish we all had.

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