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Birth
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Graduation
Scalia enrolled at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he graduated valedictorian and summa cum laude with a bachelors degree in history in 1957 -
Graduation
Scalia continued on to Harvard Law school graduating magna cum laude in 1960 -
Marriage to Maureen McCarthy
During his final year at Harvard he met Maureen McCarthy, an undergraduate at Radcliffe College -
Appointed to Court of Appeals
Justice Scalia would be appointed byPresident Ronald Reagan to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1982 -
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Justice on U.S. Supreme Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
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Supreme Court Justice
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Coy v. Iowa
John Coy was tried in an Iowa court for sexually assaulting two 13-year-old girls. While on trial, the court placed a screen, between him and the plantiffs, making it so the girls didn't have to see him. John Coy would refute this saying that the screen violated his Sixth Amendment right to confront his accusers face-to-face. The vote ended in a 6-2 count. Justice Scalia would give the majoirity opinion saying that the screen violated his Sixth Ammendment rights -
United States v. Windsor
Edith Windsor is the widow of Thea Clara Spyer, who died in 2009. Thea Spyer left her estate to her spouse, and because their marriage was not recognized by federal law, the government imposed $363,000 in taxes. Edith would go on file a lawsuit, The vote ended in a 5-4 count, Scalia being in the minority, he wrote that the Supreme Court had neither the jurisdiction to review the case nor the power to invalidate democratically enacted legislation -
King v. Burwell
In this case the justices were voting on whether or not to keep a key component of the Affordable Care Act (2010). It ended in a 6-3 vote in favor, and Antonin Scalia was in the minority. He made headlines when he made statements like “We should start calling this law SCOTUScare," which is a acronym for the supreme court, he also later stated and called the decision “interpretive jiggery-pokery” in which “words no longer have meaning.” -
Obergefell et al v. Hodges
Groups of same-sex couples sued their relevant state agencies in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee to challenge those states' bans on same-sex marriage.
This case would be voted on and would end in a 5-4 voting, and would determine that the ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, and should be legalized in all 50 states. Justice Scalia wrote that the majority overstepped the bounds of the Court’s authority and said that same-sex marriage should not be voted on by un-elected judges. -
Death
Died in Shafter, Texas
