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Antonin Scalia was us supreme court justice from 1986 to 2016. Antonin Gregory Scalia 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. Read more on Wikipedia →

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