Scalia
Americannoun
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Justice Antonin Scalia was able to frame his majority opinion as the vindication of a right so obvious that virtually the entire country already recognized it to some degree.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s third appointee, was a clerk for Scalia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Kennedy and his wife bought a house in the same northern Virginia neighborhood where Scalia lived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
On cases involving abortion and homosexuality in particular, he was given to what Scalia in dissent once called “showy profundities” that “are often profoundly incoherent.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
M. Beltrani Scalia justly said that we might as well build them at home, for they will cost less and be more serviceable.
From Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri
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