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Law & Jurisprudence
Antonin Scalia
1936–2016Trenton, NJItalian American descendantHistoric
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Why Included
Associate Justice whose originalist and textualist jurisprudence reshaped modern U.S. constitutional interpretation.
Notable For
- U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice 1986–2016
- Pioneered modern originalist legal theory
Honors & Recognition
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (posthumous)
Sources
- U.S. Supreme Courtgovernment
- Encyclopaedia Britannicabiography
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Quick Facts
- Field
- Law & Jurisprudence
- Specialty
- Judiciary/SCOTUS
- Years
- 1936–2016
- Birth Place
- Trenton, NJ
- Origin
- Italian American descendant
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