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Antonin Scalia was born in Trenton New Jersey on March 11, 1936. His parents were Kathy Panero and S. Eugene. He was an only child.
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He moved with his family to Queens, New York.
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Graduated with Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown university
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Went to study at Harvard Law and graduated
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He married Muareen McCarty.
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Got a Sheldon Fellowship.
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Fellowship allowed him to travel around Europe.
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They had their firt child Ann Forrest. There other children were Eugene (Now a labor attorney), John Francis, Catherine Elisabeth, Mary Clare, Paul David (currently a priest at St. Johns church in McLean). They also had Matthew ( Now a U.S. Army Major), Christopher James (Now an English professor at the University of Virginia's college at Wise), and Margaret Jane (Studying at the University of Virginia).
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He became a professor of law at university of Virginia
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he worked under Richard Nixon at the general council for the office of the telecommunications policy.
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He started work as chairman of the administrative conference of the united states.
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hestarted serving as the assistant Attorney General for the office of Legal counsel under the Ford administration.
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Ronald Regan appoints him as judge on the United states court of appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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Reagan nominates him to replace William Rehnquist as the associate Justice of the Supreme court.
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Was voted for the supreme court in senate vote 98-0 and took his seat.
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Antonin Scalia heard a case where defendants sued petitioners for targeting them for deportation. They sued them because of their association with a politically unpopular group. While their suit was pending, Congress had passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility . Justice Scalia was dissenting.