Definitions for scalia
skəˈli əscali·a

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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.

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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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. Lindsey Graham:

   If we lose the White House, and Hillary Clinton nominates someone to replace Scalia, I'll vote for him.

2. Chief Justice John Roberts:

   Justice Scalia has been on the court for 30 years. That makes him a leader in terms of where the court has been, how it has operated. To some extent, he has more leadership authority when it comes to tenure on the court and what that entails than I do.

3. Chuck Grassley:

   It isn't any different if the President of the United States notifies Congress well in advanced of a piece of legislation that he's going to veto it, whether it's today or tomorrow or whether it's for the next seven or eight months, this is a very important debate that we ought to have about the constitution and about not only who's going to be a replacement for Justice Scalia but about the role of the Supreme Court.

4. Jeff Sessions:

   I think our President, having seen some of these really weird interpretations of the executive orders that he's put out, I think he's more understanding now that we need judges who follow the law, not make law, the judges don't get to psychoanalyze the President to see if the order he issues is lawful. It's either lawful or it's not. I think that it will be real important for America to have judges in the model of Judge (Neil) Gorsuch and (the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin) Scalia, people who serve under the law, under the Constitution, not above it, and they are faithful to the law. They honor it and don't try to remake it as they'd like it to be.

5. Iain Murray:

   The death of Justice Scalia has proved a disaster for public sector workers who have their paychecks raided by unions.

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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