1. Antonin Scalia had gone quail hunting the afternoon before, and then dined.
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2. Antonin Scalia enjoyed a warm relationship with fellow Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, considered a member of the court's liberal wing, with the two attending the opera together and appearing together onstage as supernumeraries in Washington National Opera's 1994 production of Ariadne auf Naxos.
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5. Antonin Scalia described himself as an originalist, meaning that he interpreted the United States Constitution as it would have been understood when it was adopted.
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8. Antonin Scalia wrote numerous opinions from the start of his career on the Supreme Court.
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12. Antonin Scalia wrote, "Justice O'Connor's assertion, that a 'fundamental rule of judicial restraint' requires us to avoid reconsidering Roe cannot be taken seriously".
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17. Antonin Scalia was called to the White House and accepted Reagan's nomination.
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19. Antonin Scalia was confirmed by the US Senate on August 5, 1982, and was sworn in on August 17, 1982.
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20. Antonin Scalia was offered a seat on the Chicago-based United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in early 1982 but declined it, hoping to be appointed to the highly influential United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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21. Antonin Scalia repeatedly testified before congressional committees, defending Ford administration assertions of executive privilege regarding its refusal to turn over documents.
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22. Antonin Scalia became a professor of law at the University of Virginia in 1967, moving his family to Charlottesville.
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24. Antonin Scalia studied law at Harvard Law School, where he was a Notes Editor for the Harvard Law Review.
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25. Antonin Scalia took his junior year abroad at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
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27. The elder Antonin Scalia would become a professor of Romance languages at Brooklyn College, where he was an adherent to the formalist New Criticism school of literary theory.
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28. Antonin Scalia was born on March 11, 1936, in Trenton, New Jersey and was an only child.
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31. Antonin Scalia spent most of the Carter years teaching at the University of Chicago, where he became one of the first faculty advisers of the fledgling Federalist Society.
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