Justices Antonin Scalia

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gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:Justice
gptkbp:appointed_by gptkb:Sir_Ronald_Reagan
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom
gptkbp:born_on March 11, 1936
gptkbp:burial_place gptkb:Holy_Cross_Cemetery,_Culpeper,_Virginia
gptkbp:children gptkb:John_Scalia
gptkb:Christopher_Scalia
gptkb:Catherine_Scalia
Mary Scalia
gptkbp:died_on February 13, 2016
gptkbp:education gptkb:Georgetown_University
gptkb:Harvard_Law_School
gptkbp:full_name gptkb:Antonin_Gregory_Scalia
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Justices Antonin Scalia
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Neil_Gorsuch
gptkb:John_Roberts
gptkb:Samuel_Alito
gptkb:Clarence_Thomas
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Thomas_Aquinas
gptkbp:known_for Originalism
Textualism
gptkbp:legacy Influence on conservative legal thought
Impact on Second Amendment jurisprudence
Critique of judicial activism
Advocacy for textualism and originalism
Public intellectual and speaker
gptkbp:notable_quote " I am not a philosopher. I am a lawyer."
" The law is not a game of charades."
" Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change."
" The Constitution is not a living organism. It is a legal document. It says what it says and doesn’t say what it doesn’t say."
" I don’t think that the Constitution is a living document."
gptkbp:place_of_birth gptkb:Trenton,_New_Jersey
gptkbp:place_of_death gptkb:Shenandoah_Valley,_Virginia
gptkbp:political_affiliation Conservative
gptkbp:reviews gptkb:King_v._Burwell
gptkb:Bush_v._Gore
gptkb:District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
gptkbp:served_as gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Maureen_Scalia
gptkbp:writings gptkb:Reading_Law:_The_Interpretation_of_Legal_Texts
gptkb:Scalia_Speaks:_Reflections_on_Law,_Faith,_and_Life_Well_Lived
A Matter of Interpretation
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Burwell_v._Hobby_Lobby_Stores,_Inc.
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4