In her Column “The House That Scalia Built”(2016), Jamie Stiehm argues suggest that supreme court justice Antonin Scalia is dead everything will fall apart. Stiehm backs her statement up with logos, she says “often callous in withering dissents on, for example, gay marriage.” Stiehm hopes to persuade her readers to think nothing will go the republicans way anymore. Stiehm uses a mocking sarcastic approach in her column to show she has no sympathy for his death and just wanted her way of thinking. Stiehm’s tone in the column comes off as mocking as she says “[Scalia] was often callous in withering dissents.” Stiehm claims,“The house Scalia Built” will fall because of his death. She is referring to the Supreme court. Stiehm mocks Scalia by