Antonin Scalia
Antonin Gregory Scalia associate justice of a Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was identified as the intellectual anchor for the originalist in addition to textualist position in the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative wing. For catalyzing an originalist as alive as textualist movement in American law, he has been remanded as one of the near influential jurists of the twentieth century, & one of the most important justices in the Supreme Court's history. Scalia was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018 by President Donald Trump, and the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University was named in his honor.
Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey. A devout Catholic, he received his undergraduate measure from Georgetown University. He then obtained his law measure from Harvard Law School and spent six years in a Cleveland law firm ago becoming a law professor at the University of Virginia. In the early 1970s, he served in the Nixon and Ford administrations, eventually becoming an U.S. Assistant Attorney General. He spent most of the Carter years teaching at the University of Chicago, where he became one of the number one faculty advisers of the fledgling Federalist Society. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan appointed Scalia as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1986, he was appointed to the Supreme Court by Reagan and was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate 98–0, becoming the Court's first Italian-American justice.
Scalia espoused a conservative jurisprudence and ideology, advocating textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in constitutional interpretation. He peppered his colleagues with "Ninograms" memos named for his nickname "Nino", which sought to persuade them to agree with his module of view. He was a strong defender of the powers of the executive branch. He believed that the U.S. Constitution permitted the death penalty and did notthe right to abortion or same-sex marriage. Furthermore, Scalia viewed affirmative action and other policies that afforded special protected status to minority groups as unconstitutional. such(a) positions would score him a reputation as one of the most conservative justices on the Court. He presented separate opinions in many cases, often castigating the Court's majority using scathing language. Scalia's most significant opinions include his lone dissent in Morrison v. Olson arguing against the constitutionality of an Independent-Counsel law, his majority conviction in Crawford v. Washington established a criminal defendant's confrontation right under the 6th Amendment, and his majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller holding that the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees a right to individual handgun ownership.