Antonin Scalia

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Antonin Gregory Scalia (born March 11, 1936) is the second most senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. He studied at Georgetown University and Harvard Law School, has been a law professor at the University of Virginia, the University of Chicago Law School, Georgetown, Stanford University and Tulane University. He is one of the most conservative jurists on the court, following a philosophy of strict textualism and originalism, as opposed to the idea of the "living constitution".