Contents Justices Guides Case List Introduction Antonin Scalia (1936-) Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, appointed by Ronald Reagan (R) in 1986. Replaced William H. Rehnquist when Rehnquist was promoted to Chief Justice upon the retirement of Warren E. Burger. Scalia has, on the whole lived up to the restraintist credentials that propelled him to the high bench. In ...

Antonin Scalia 1986- ANTONIN SCALIA was born March 11, 1936, in Trenton, New Jersey, the only child of S. Eugene Scalia and Catherine Scalia. His father, who was born in Sicily and emigrated to the United States as a young man, was a professor of Romance languages. His mother, born to immigrant Italian parents, was a schoolteacher. As the first American of Italian heritage appointed to the ...

Home | Newswire | About Us | Donate | Sign-Up Featured Views Share This Article With Your Friends Published on Monday, November 19, 2001 in the San Francisco Chronicle Scalia Could Save Us From Bush's Kangaroo Court by Harley Sorensen Only Antonin Scalia can save us now. From The New York Times, quoting Vice President Dick Cheney: The basic proposition here is that somebody who comes into the ...