The US supreme court justice will be remembered more for his dissents than legal opinions that changed lives. Given his analyses,that may be for the bestWhen Antonin Scalia was nominated to the US supreme court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, the first Italian-American to serve on the Court was unanimously confirmed by the Senate. It may well be a year – or several – before the Senate confirm anybody to replace Scalia, or who died on Saturday at the age of 79. But that vote will almost assuredly not be unanimous,regardless of who the eventual nominee is: the politics of US supreme court appointments own become as polarized as the rest of American politics.
And Scalia himself played a meaningful role in that very polarization.
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Source: theguardian.com