Justice Antonin Scalia: A Brief Retrospective

Justice Antonin Scalia served on the Supreme Court for 29 years. He was a champion of textualism, a way of reading law which takes preceding legal documents, particularly the constitution, at their “word-value”, and not their implied intent. Justice Scalia was also known for his scathing dissents, tearing through other Justice’s arguments and rulings with aggressive legal reasoning. It's now been a decade since his passing, and I felt The Review needed a word or two about one of the most influential Supreme Court Justices in modern history. Selected by President Ronald Reagan, Justice Scalia had served in political roles under the Nixon and Ford administrations. In 1982, President Reagan offered Justice Scalia a position on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit. After accepting the position, Justice Scalia served on the court for approximately four years, before Chief Justice Warren Burger gave President Reagan his decision to retire.

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