1. ...Scalia (nicknamed "Nino") was born on March 11, 1936, in Trenton...
2. After graduating from Harvard Scalia worked for a law firm in Cleveland...
3. In 1977 Scalia resumed his academic career at...the University of Chicago Law School (1977–82)...
4. Scalia was the first Italian American to serve on the Supreme Court...
5. Scalia was known for his wit and humor....
6. Scalia subscribed to a judicial philosophy known as "originalism." ...the Constitution should be interpreted in terms of what it meant to those who ratified the Constitution in 1788, and is often contrasted with the Constitution as a "living document" that allows courts to take into account the views of contemporary society....
7. Scalia was an adamant and vocal opponent of "judicial activism," particularly when it was used to circumvent the democratic process on social issues....
8. Prior to his death, Scalia had been the longest-serving justice on the current Supreme Court.
9. Scalia was a devout traditionalist Roman Catholic (one of his sons is a Roman Catholic priest). In an interview in 2013, the New Yorker asked him, "Isn't it terribly frightening to believe in the Devil?" Scalia replied,
You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the Devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the Devil! Most of mankind has believed in the Devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the Devil.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegospelcoalition.org ...
