Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016 · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1936 to 2016 · aged 79
Antonin Gregory Scalia 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. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the Court's conservative wing.
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The 2009-2010 Court, with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and retiring justice David Souter with Scalia fourth from right
Scalia (left) at the University of Virginia School of Law, 2010
Opening page of Scalia's dissent in Lawrence v. Texas
Demonstrations outside the Supreme Court awaiting the decision in Obergefell v. Hodges
Scalia (right) at Harvard Law School on November 30, 2006Awards
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For catalyzing an originalist and textualist movement in American law, he has been described as one of the most influential jurists of the twentieth century, and one of the most important justices in the history of the Supreme Court. Scalia was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018, and the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University was named in his honor.
