It doesn't pass the "smell test" to think that Scalia's opinions on law are in colored by the facts he not only believes but also elevates to a privileged posit

It doesn't pass the "smell test" to think that Scalia's opinions on law are in colored by the facts he not only believes but also elevates to a privileged position in his formal declarations. If he illustrates an opinion with a substantively wrong "fact", the opinion is suspect.