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A neural network that writes Scalia dissents

I trained a recursive neural network (https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn) on a bunch of Justice Scalia's dissents from the past few years. It spits out some amusing stuff, depending on the starter text and how "adventurous" you want the output. Since it's character-based and not word-based, it makes a bunch of spelling errors (unlike Justice Scalia), but is also able to create new words (just like Justice Scalia!). Here are some samples.

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Starter text: "Justice SCALIA", random level: 0.8. Never would have expected this from a strict constructionist (check the first sentence). This one brings in same-sex marriage, constitutional interpretation, and the typical contempt-ridden air quotes.

"Justice SCALIA, dissenting. 
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"Justice SCALIA", 0.85. Talking about all sorts of stuff, including "pregnancy discrimination".

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"Pretentious", random level: 0.95. I love how the second paragraph starts with such a forceful statement.

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"What a parody", random level: 0.8:


"What a parody of an initient fact that Arizona affirmatively regulated: The Act be expressed that matter of according to say that he says no penalty discharges were meaning of the attorney error was related to far as a complaint that the Ninth Circuit, the Court underpresent a vigwated criteria state area, it was reflexted to no law that the context of a separate law benefit of loso shouse before uncondition upon those precisely the entire of all cosest as the correct according affected billiple because the Court had unintw what Congress was made by the Court's decisions of among the trial courts or tepporable terms of the Court declaring where "advised entirely tax removing the health production judicial state" requirement that a false of the unconstitutional facts of the context in power to reason to be uncorpective of a court may be unconstitutional." Consistence of People v. Weleso, 3 Cranch 23, 278, 488-131 (1998)(7) (SIV). As Congress of these vermison accepting in the law authorially does not entirely with the prohibition only to make of citizens than whether it meaning for the trial court of its action of context of a second of the substitution were standing a provisions that it means that when a way is an insurer that these whole testimony makes a has for other claims by Congress has validity, in the presumably justify the EPA, on the industrial hardly concluded the Court's) federal issues, and whereas many rule and debate. The failure search new theory is may well injury, who seek did not demonstrate whether the Act at at our certificate of an interpation was described the entire 1998."

"You would think", random level: 0.95. The first sentence up until the quote kinda makes sense.

"You would think the legitimacy thing prohibited in the distinction is simply criminal inquiry, "which this Court's acts a "persons whose pre-existing, and the election which retrostened with the DNA has alver: a contracts criminal criminal criminal courts, which excluder implication wasd delay anytorney federal gur to be saude that is own, it takes who leave the precedent of an initial provisions that equal-riscretion. Since forbidable to pre-enact work to the legislative powers against Grabe-special v. Palusheent, 184 U. S. 413, 96 (1968). The provisions of this case, never be marketur judiciary justify the purpose of a matter of U.S. Sovily representative with Magna Cartz, 3 Dyanchests)."

"Pure applesauce", random level: 0.85. My favorite new word in this is "decoking".

"Pure applesauces and other whole must be an bendailing the prohibition my say allowing responsible for the entire of the concept or continue to cannot be cherd, nuble of a precedent or recognized it even any failure in a criminal statute that establishing for records the State courts a habeas called the property of the Supreme Court may is the decoking the same-treatment proceded such appointed by the enactment] affecting the his constitutional oright, whenever the entire Circuit's detention interest out of the courts or provision anything was referently, because it as textual regulatory justice avoid of the higcies jurisdiction remanding taxes in its percentage. It is not the thousate those whole employment-mates of ability to relevant the jurisdictional conduct and other factor of a meaning of a dignity claims activities (inexplicable criminal viltely." Ante, at 14-51, in v. Nownnephshor, 287 U. S. ___, ___ ("SC. . .).
II: This case that describes Congress had advire foreign all who eqhevel undermine the statute to the attention to pre-enactment of the opinion the decision scheme to do so."

"The overriding principle", random level: 0.85. Apparently the "overriding principle of democracy" is the substantial cost of a firearm. "Assing" the prescribed, eh? Clever verbiage.

"The overriding principle of democracy action this substantial cost of a firearm. Application would have extraordinary from a fireard health-insurance considerations in respectively undermined to include Assing the "prescribed" in the Court conceded against sovereign powers") (2012) and Storch "a man private parts of state law based on asquictions — and can adjudge deal was no State's reading operates." 

"Who ever thought", random level: 0.5. At this level of randomness, sentences sorta make more sense, but go on forever. Not that dissimilar from actual court opinions.

"Who ever thought the Court's employees would have destroyed in the entire of a prevailing the majority-minority districts. And that is an incremental proceeding is an industrial review counsel that the proceeding is not the exclusive assistance of the pre-emption and industrial country and powers that the prosecution that the Court's opinion requires the action when the Arizona should not have the federal musus credit and standing to enforce the Fourth Amendment stands it that a state control of securated coverage in the decision to the concurrence of the First Amendment is because the decision mandatory minimums through the provision and that we have no purport to have the Framers were asserting about the time areas wholesale relevant to foreign criminals in the context of the Fourteenth Amendment is a contrary restraint."

"Perhaps", random level: 0.85. States' rights, baby.

"Perhaps the law infringed by the Alabama Acts and rights from coverage in a State suggesting its cases like this case is other powers or achieved by the guarantee correctness to the States — the normal law as a complaint that the Ninth Circuit, the Court v. Norkes, each cause of the California driving search power is the electoral interest." 

"I suggest", random level: 0.88. You can just feel the contempt dripping from this one, especially due to the mistakes of the "personders of contrary" and the "delicitations" of the Ninth Circuit.

"I suggested changes to reject the cases of change holding) none of the capering the other personders of contrary, nor "delicitation" of the Ninth Circuit siteed held that the Federal Department precedent that rather than the relevant is equally "trup estor through the precese when "[t]o accept the property of the Transport Rule 18(b) which documents to the DOA disclose schools, "nonjudicination of Floridaps "convicted contract regarding about all when the law injudicial soupce, when the purpose of interpretation on the Appehedated Dectivenes of Jo.s 26 U. S. C. §209*20A in this criminal v. §37 espord or "manafestorize that a holding would "involve other warrantless" enacted comes to dismiss gives relief.
A claim relationship as ever the upheal possible that the prohibiting "[I]f which is acceptly choices (intenting governmental conflict would not] held that even pick form." 

"Same-sex marriage", random level: 0.4.

 "Same-sex marriage of the proceeding has not shown that the criterion of the Court's opinion spending and the Act did not establish which the caption of religious accidenty of the new same-sex marriage in factor principle that the Court says that the Federal Government can be relevant to the constitutional provisions of the natural relationships because the Court change the new district court's decision to the problems on the Court does not present an unconstitutional proceeding that the Court decides the United States v. Manyna, 537 U.S. 373, 513-534, 114 S.Ct. 2748, 129 L.Ed.2d 1305 (2010) (slip op., at 3) (internal quotation marks omitted). It is not the statute and compels a straight of the Act. The Court has no constitutional proceeding the court below the pre-emption circumstantly was an interest. Ante, at 1352. The Court standing what the Court may reasonably a pre-encorment is that the Act and of the present case is a contrary is an opinion relief in the entire of a mere respection of the present case for the Act when it intended."

"Same-sex marriage", random level: 0.6. It's all about the Fourth Amendment.

 "Same-sex marriage in the order to companies precedent. The Fourth Amendment is not a single the Act that the Act does not effect through other crimes by control of "case"); (emphasis added). The Court has no reason to what is why a destrict court mistaken would be inappellant majority was a defendant's opinion concurring in the Agency and the tax credits to give Federal program with the constitutional expenditure was prohibited from a question by the trial procedural default of the Federal Government cases a tax any department of the latter resolved the problem is so and set of the provision requiring the present context in Such a State context of the constitutional conductes between the three court."
"Same-sex marriage", random level: 0.8. An "injustice relationship".

"Same-sex marriage is eagible television would comply with the tax driver's required extens preemptive evidence on the court already related dependence of preferable cost-emimst scull injustice relationship, "month" provision is the election sakee seeking decision in the logicial justice a matter, regard to the government of the Freingly reasonable Commerce Clauses was not wholenature that is not docuper to draw only of [a] law meaning in the prosecutor in the fairnes" of the judges did not mean in a followings applicable to enact criminal action and retreoting state Patition does not disparance of a provision of the statute." Id., at 54." 

"Same-sex marriage', random level: 0.85. This actually made me laugh.

"Same-sex marriage is eaple the ACA's evintory cannot present an erroneous collaterations plainness — whereas criminal stance in our canon case. Or the statute is not the market spot that the Court fources "toor "justify" the Court conduct that according decision in candod requires in 14 millooloyly, Floring engals that the Demott v. Relo, 308 U.S. 332, 410, 111 S.Ct. 9300, 160 S.Ct. 1409, 131 S.Ct. 1545. Crowing it be applied to do warred the majority may be correcion, which canon a proceeding by entire regulation, and so health insurance complaint from the First Amendment here is not the court penalty and inference to the hinds of the Act's my view, it must anticill from a wantonering any defendant that as the statute exercise of this case regulates." 

"Same-sex marriage", 0.9.

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