- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAntonin Gregory Scalia
- Nickname
- Nino
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Antonin Scalia was born on March 11, 1936 in Trenton, New Jersey, USA. He was married to Maureen McCarthy. He died on February 13, 2016 in Marfa, Texas, USA.
- SpouseMaureen McCarthy(September 10, 1960 - February 13, 2016) (his death, 9 children)
- Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1986 to 2016.
- Father of Ann Forrest, Eugene Scalia, John Francis Scalia, Catherine Elisabeth Scalia, Mary Clare Scalia, Paul David Scalia, Matthew Scalia, Christopher Scalia (Christopher James Scalia), and Margaret Jane Scalia with wife, Maureen McCarthy.
- A devout Roman Catholic.
- Has twenty-eight grandchildren.
- Popularized originalism, the judicial theory that the meaning of the U.S. Constitution was fixed in place at the time of its enactment.
- I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
- "The Constitution is not a living organism for Pete's sake. It's a legal document. If you told John Marshall that the Constitution morphed ... he would be unbelieving. The death penalty was not considered cruel and unusual punishment. There's no doubt about it. Now it may be a very bad idea. And if the people want to change it, nothing in the Constitution requires that you have the death penalty. But that's quite a different question from whether your Supreme Court ... can decide for the whole country that the death penalty is no longer permitted. If you want to be governed by an aristocracy, there are better aristocracies than nine lawyers." Speech at Stetson University College of Law, April 5, 2007.
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