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Antonin Gregory Scalia [n 1] (March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) [n 2] was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016.
Apr 2, 2014 · (1936-2016) Who Was Antonin Scalia? Antonin Scalia was a lawyer and an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a practicing lawyer in the 1960s, and then worked...
- Pure applesauce — King v. Burwell. In his dissenting opinion on the Obamacare case, Scalia assessed one element of the majority’s opinion to be “pure applesauce” — Justice Stephen Breyer used a similar phrase in 2007 in his dissenting view: sheer applesauce.
- Jiggery-pokery — King v. Burwell. In the same case, Scalia argued that the interpretation of “such” in a particular phrase in the Obamacare legislation falsely claims that the federal and state exchanges are the same.
- SCOTUScare — King v. Burwell. Scalia maintained that when Congress passed Obamacare, it passed a bill that mandated that tax credits only be available on an “Exchange established by the State.”
- Broccoli — Arguing Obamacare. On the second day of oral arguments for the Obamacare case, Scalia asked Donald Verrilli, the lawyer representing the Obama administration, to defend a provision in the law that asks why Washington bureaucrats couldn’t force Americans to buy vegetables.
Jul 3, 2019 · Scalia was one of the most well-known Justices and was famous for his combative personality and his judicial philosophy of "originalism" – the idea that the Constitution should be interpreted in terms of what it meant to its original authors.
- Marcus Hawkins
Feb 13, 2016 · Nino Scalia will go down in history as one of the most transformational Supreme Court Justices of our nation. His views on interpreting texts have changed the way all...
(JTA) — “When there was no Jewish justice on the Supreme Court,” Antonin “Nino” Scalia told me, “I considered myself the Jewish justice.” After Abe Fortas resigned in May 1969, there would be no...
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Feb 14, 2016 · Justice Elena Kagan: "Nino Scalia will go down in history as one of the most transformational Supreme Court Justices of our nation. His views on interpreting texts have changed the way all of us ...
