Scalia
Proper noun
Meaning
Scalia (plural Scalias)
A surname from Italian.
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After graduating from Notre Dame University Law School in Indiana, she clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Biden and other Democrats have decried Trump’s nomination of a new justice given Republicans’ refusal to consider President Barack Obama’s selection following the 2016 death of Antonin Scalia.
Four years ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., blocked confirmation hearings for Merrick Garland, former President Barack Obama's pick to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
But following Kennedy’s retirement in 2018 and the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016, their replacements — Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — are seen as more conservative.
As we’ve noted before, Judge Barrett follows the philosophy of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, hero to conservatives and a staunch ally of corporations.
“I felt like I knew the justice before I ever met him, because I had read so many of his colorful, accessible opinions,” Barrett, who clerked for Scalia in 1998 and 1999, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday.