Personal Life vs. Public Life 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 ...
This separation of powers is blurred, Scalia argues, when unelected federal judges decide cases in accordance with their own personal preferences, which may be contrary to those expressed by the framers and ratifiers. In such instances, Scalia asserts, federal judges usurp the legislative function...
I’m not sayingScalia wasn’t a good manin his personal life. I have no idea what he was like to the people he loved. For all I know he may have been a good friend, a loving husband, father and grandfather. He probably had people he cared about and who cared about...
JUSTICE SCALIA: Counsel, you are not reading this, are you? I feel his pain. Lyle Denniston, writing atSCOTUSblogfollows up with his personal observationafter the judicial taunt: Lechner didn’t answer, simply standing silent for a lengthy embarrassed moment. ...
The opinions of Justice Scalia are a different matter. Scalia is often sarcastic, smug, and self-assured. He does not hesitate to take his colleagues to task when he feels they are wrong and does not mind stooping to ridicule and personal attack when it serves his point. In short, ...
The death of Justice Scalia has to be a rallying call to all gun owners. He was a great champion for the constitution, and a great champion for our 2ndAmendment rights. In his memory, and in defense of ourselves, we have to get out and vote. We can no longer have the excuse of sa...
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Antonin Scalia, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016, well known for his strong legal conservatism. He was the first Supreme Court justice of Italian ancestry. Learn more about Scalia’s life and judicial career i
RELATED: How Scalia’s death could change America “Both his admirers and his detractors agreed that Justice Scalia was one of the sharpest constitutional intellects to ever serve on the bench,” Bush said in a statement. “I considered him a personal hero, and Barbara and I were honored to...
No. It never cost me a majority. And you ought to be reluctant to think that any justice of the Supreme Court would make a case come out the other way just to spite Scalia. Nobody would do that. You’re dealing with significant national issues. You’re dealing with real litigants—no...