Definitions for Scalia
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1. Scalia

   Antonin Gregory Scalia ( (listen); March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative wing. For catalyzing an originalist and textualist movement in American law, he has been described as one of the most influential jurists of the twentieth century, and one of the most important justices in the history of the Supreme Court. Scalia was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018 by President Donald Trump, and the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University was named in his honor. Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey. A devout Catholic, he attended Xavier High School before receiving his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. Scalia went on to graduate from Harvard Law School and spent six years at Jones Day before becoming a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. In the early 1970s, he served in the Nixon and Ford administrations, eventually becoming an Assistant Attorney General under President Gerald Ford. He spent most of the Carter years teaching at the University of Chicago, where he became one of the first faculty advisers of the fledgling Federalist Society. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan appointed Scalia as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Four years later, Reagan appointed him to the Supreme Court where he became its first Italian-American justice following a unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate 98–0.Scalia espoused a conservative jurisprudence and ideology, advocating textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in constitutional interpretation. He peppered his colleagues with "Ninograms" (memos named for his nickname, "Nino") intending to persuade them to his point of view. He was a strong defender of the powers of the executive branch and believed that the U.S. Constitution permitted the death penalty and did not guarantee the right to either abortion or same-sex marriage. Furthermore, Scalia viewed affirmative action and other policies that afforded special protected status to minority groups as unconstitutional. Such positions would earn him a reputation as one of the most conservative justices on the Court. He filed separate opinions in many cases, often castigating the Court's majority—sometimes scathingly so. Scalia's most significant opinions include his lone dissent in Morrison v. Olson (arguing against the constitutionality of an Independent-Counsel law), and his majority opinions in Crawford v. Washington (defining a criminal defendant's confrontation right under the Sixth Amendment) and District of Columbia v. Heller (holding that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees a right to individual handgun ownership).

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1. SCALIA

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Scalia is ranked #16079 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Scalia surname appeared 1,801 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Scalia.
   
   93.7% or 1,689 total occurrences were White.
   3.6% or 66 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.5% or 27 total occurrences were Asian.
   1% or 18 total occurrences were of two or more races.

How to pronounce Scalia?

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   Daniel

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   Oliver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Scalia in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Scalia in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Scalia in a Sentence

1. President Barack Obama:

   I think (Garland) had a pretty good sense of the posture that Majority Leader McConnell took immediately after Justice Scalia's passing.

2. The President:

   We got to have not just a Democratic president who can continue the legacy that we built together over the last 7½ years, but we've got to have a Senate that is a partner in this process, and I can list a whole bunch of reasons for why that's so important. It turns out that because of the untimely death of Justice Scalia -- and obviously we grieve for his family -- but the behavior of the Senate since then, I think, gives you a pretty good reason of why we think the Senate is so important.

3. Neil Gorsuch:

   I wonder if people realize that Justices (Clarence) Thomas and (Sonia) Sotomayor agree about 60% of the time, or that Justices Scalia and (Stephen) Breyer agreed even more often than that.

4. Gabe Roth:

   If Justice Antonin Scalia're Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Antonin Scalia should have a broader recusal list, theoretically because Justice Antonin Scalia're more fungible at that level, Justice Antonin Scalia can be replaced.

5. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid:

   As we speak, Donald Trump is proposing to ban Muslim immigration. Other leading candidates are proposing a religious test, tossing around slurs on a daily basis, and now a Republican-appointed justice endorsing racist ideas from the Supreme Court bench. The only difference between the ideas endorsed by Trump and Scalia is that Scalia has a robe and a lifetime appointment. Ideas like this don't belong on the Internet, let alone the mouths of national figures.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalia
2. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html