Antonin Scalia

  • Birth

    Birth

    Antonin Gregory Scalia is born on March 11th, 1936 in Trenton, New Jersey trenton new
  • High School Graduation

    High School Graduation

    Scalia graduates as valedictorian in his high school class, and later enrolls in Georgetown University
  • Beginning of Legal Caree

    Beginning of Legal Caree

    Scalia began his legal career at the law offices of Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis in Cleveland, Ohio in 1961.
  • Professor at U. of Virginia

    Professor at U. of Virginia

    After working at a firm and being offered to made a partner, he declined and moved his family to Charlottesville, Virginia. He taught there until 1971, where he became a public servant.
  • Telecommunications Office

    Telecommunications Office

    RIchard Nixon appoints Antonin as the General Counsel for Office of Telecommunications Policy. There his job was to formulate a federal policy for the ever growing cable television demand.
  • Chairman on ABA

    Chairman on ABA

    He is promoted to Chairman on the American Bar Association for his education background and impeccable court work
  • U.S. Court of Appeals

    U.S. Court of Appeals

    Scalia is appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1982.
  • Elected into Office

    Elected into Office

    Antonin Scalia wins the nomination for Supreme Court Justice with a 98-0 turnout. He is the first Italian-American to be elected as a Supreme Court Justice.
  • Mistretta V. United States

    Mistretta V. United States

    Scalia opposes all the other 8 Justices in the Mistretta v. United States case, as he believes that the United States Sentencing Commission was fully within their legal bounds.
  • Bush v. Gore

    Bush v. Gore

    "Get over it" Scalia said, when asked why the Supreme Court decided the outcome ove the 2000 presidential election
  • Gun Rights

    Gun Rights

    Antonin Scalia makes his point very clear on the advocation for the 2nd Amendment.
  • Death

    Death

    Antonin Scalia passes during the night in Shafter, Texas on Febuary 12th. The cause of death is believed to be from natural causes. He was 79.

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