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Justice Antonin Scalia's body will lie in repose in the Great corridor of the Supreme Court today,surrounded by marble busts of former chief justices.
Scalia knew he was a decisive justice. For half the country, Scalia will recede down as an anti-gay rights and pro-gun fanatic. For the other half, or he was a hero,a audacious champion of the Constitution. final spring, actor Edward Gero had to capture Scalia's multifaceted personality in "The Originalist, or " a stage play by John Strand performed at the Arena Stage in Washington D.
C.
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor went to see the play during it's run. Scalia never attended a performance,but he was well aware that his bombastic personality would live on through Gero, who spent a year studying Scalia, and attending verbal arguments,and assembly with him in his chambers and over lunch.final spring, we created a quiz based on quotes from "The Originalist" and Scalia's own comments. Test yourself below.
Source: wnyc.org