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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.
Feb 15, 2016 · On 13 February 2016, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died on a Texas hunting trip. Although Scalia was 79 years old at the time of his death, he was also considered to be in reasonably...
Feb 14, 2016 · Antonin Scalia, the judicial firebrand who stood as the intellectual leader of the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative wing during his three-decade tenure as a justice, died Saturday at a ranch...
- Scalia's Early Life and Formative Years
- His Early Career
- Academia
- Supreme Court Nomination
- Originalism
- Controversies
- Personal Life vs. Public Life
- His Death
Scalia was born March 11, 1936, in Trenton, New Jersey. He was the only son of Eugene and Catherine Scalia. As a second generation American, he grew up with a strong Italian home life and was raised Roman Catholic. The family moved to Queens when Scalia was a child. He graduated first in his class from St. Francis Xavier, a military prep school in ...
Scalia's first job out of Harvard was working in commercial law for the international firm of Jones Day. He remained there from 1961 until 1967. The lure of academia drew him to become a law professor at the University of Virginia from 1967 to 1971. He was appointed general counsel of the Office of Telecommunications under the Nixon administration ...
Scalia left government service upon the election of Jimmy Carter. He returned to academia in 1977 and occupied a number of academic positions until 1982, including resident scholar for the conservative American Enterprise Institute and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Chicago School of Law, and Stanford Universit...
When Chief Justice Warren Burger retired in 1986, President Reagan appointed Justice William Rehnquist to the top spot. Rehnquist's appointment drew all the attention from Congress and the media, and even the Court. Many were pleased, but Democrats strongly opposed his appointment. Scalia was tapped by Reagan to fill the vacancy and he slipped thro...
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. He told CBS in 2008 that his interpretive philosophy is about determining what the words of the Constitutio...
Scalia's sons, Eugene and John, worked for the firms that represented George W. Bush in the landmark case, Bush v. Gore, which determined the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. Scalia drew fire from liberals for refusing to recuse himself from the case. He was also asked but declined to recuse himself from the case of Hamden v. Rumsfeldin 2...
After graduating from Georgetown University, Scalia spent a year in Europe as a student at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He met Maureen McCarthy, a Radcliffe English student, at Cambridge. In 1960, they married in 1960 and had nine children. Scalia was fiercely protective of his family's privacy throughout his term on the High Court, b...
Scaliadied on February 13, 2016, at a ranch resort in western Texas. He failed to appear for breakfast one morning and an employee of the ranch went to his room to check on him. Scalia was found in bed, deceased. He was known to have heart trouble, to suffer from diabetes, and he was overweight. His death was declared due to natural causes. But eve...
- Marcus Hawkins
Mar 8, 2016 · On February 13, the Supreme Court lost its most animated dissenter, Justice Antonin Scalia. His family mourns the loss of a husband and father; the country, one of the most influential judges in history and an intellectual anchor of conservatism.
Feb 13, 2016 · The abrupt death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia—the fiery, funny, polarizing face of the Court’s modern conservative turn—ended a chapter in legal history and opened a...
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Feb 14, 2016 · Feb. 14, 2016. Justice Antonin Scalia died on Saturday during a hunting trip in Texas. He was the longest serving member of the Supreme Court, appointed in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan.
