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‘Justice Scalia’s seat’ has a history going back 150 years

February 8, 2017 Leave a comment

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s courtroom chair is draped in black to mark his death as part of a tradition that dates to the 19th century, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, at the Supreme Court in Washington. Scalia died Saturday at age 79. He joined the court in 1986 and was its longest-serving justice. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON — On the night Judge Neil Gorsuch was nominated to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, he was thinking about history. “The towering judges that have served in this particular seat on the Supreme Court, ...

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A mystery solved: Where is Scalia buried?

September 6, 2016 Leave a comment

In this photo taken Aug. 14, 2016, the gravesite of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at Fairfax Memorial Park in Fairfax, Va. Thousands attended Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral in Washington earlier this year, but when the hearse pulled away from the church and headed to his burial site, his family asked for privacy and the Supreme Court declined to say where Scalia was being laid to rest. With the internet’s help, however, Scalia’s burial spot at Virginia’s Fairfax Memorial Park is now public. (AP Photo/Jessica Gresko)

FAIRFAX, Va. — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral was attended by thousands and carried on live television, but when the hearse pulled away from the church and headed to his burial site, his family asked for privacy and Supreme ...

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Virginia council to consider naming Mason law school for Scalia

May 16, 2016 Leave a comment

Late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (Gavin Averill/The Hattiesburg American via AP)

LEXINGTON, Va. — A state council is scheduled to take up a proposal to rename George Mason University’s law school for the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia. The school announced earlier this year that it received a $10 million ...

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Nevada governor withdraws name from high court consideration

February 25, 2016 Leave a comment

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2016 file photo, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval participates in the National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington. Two people familiar with the process say the White House is considering Sandoval as one of several potential nominees to the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

LAS VEGAS – Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said Thursday he is not interested in being considered for the U.S. Supreme Court at this time and has told the White House so. The Republican governor issued a statement following news that ...

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Scalia replacement may be hard to find with GOP opposition

February 25, 2016 Leave a comment

President Barack Obama pauses as he answers questions from members of the media during his meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. Obama urged the Republican-run Senate to fulfill its "constitutional responsibility" and consider his Supreme Court nominee, pushing back on GOP leaders who insist there will be no hearing or vote when he names a successor to the late Justice Antonin Scalia. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

WASHINGTON — Wanted: Top legal mind with Supreme Court aspirations, to serve as a national political football. Candidate must be camera-ready and prepared for disappointment. Contact Barack Obama. The stance of Republicans who are refusing to hold a vote or ...

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Scalia’s many health problems unknown to public before death

February 24, 2016 Leave a comment

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2016, file photo, people line up to pay their respects to the late Justice Antonin Scalia in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, where Scalia's body lies in repose. Scalia’s voluminous public information file is remarkably short on any details related to his health, just a report of minor shoulder surgery in 2003. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

WASHINGTON — The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s voluminous public information file is remarkably short on any details related to his health, just a report of minor shoulder surgery in 2003. But Scalia’s doctor said in a letter, parts ...

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Alito: 8-justice Supreme Court ‘will deal with it’

February 23, 2016 Leave a comment

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito gestures while speaking at Georgetown University Law Center's third annual Dean's Lecture to the Graduation Class, in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

WASHINGTON — Sounding like he is prepared for a lengthy vacancy on the Supreme Court bench, Justice Samuel Alito said Tuesday that the court will find a way to get its work done with eight members following the death of ...

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Supreme Court fight has lawmakers doing somersaults

February 23, 2016 Leave a comment

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks to the chamber where he offered a tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia whose death has triggered an election-year political standoff, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON — Republicans in favor of putting off consideration of a Supreme Court nominee during an election year have focused on an unexpected ally: Joe Biden, circa 1992. As Senate Judiciary Committee chairman more than two decades ago, the vice ...

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Scalia recalled as Supreme Court’s ‘man for all seasons’

February 22, 2016 Leave a comment

WASHINGTON — Antonin Scalia’s colleagues honored the late Supreme Court justice Monday in a manner he would surely have approved, in sharp exchanges and aggressive questions during the court’s first session since Scalia’s death. His black cloth-draped chair next to ...

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Scalia remembered as man of faith, family and the law

February 22, 2016 Leave a comment

Widow Maureen McCarthy Scalia, center, and other family members, walk behind the casket as it is ushered out of the Bascilica following the funeral mass for the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington on Saturday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was remembered Saturday as a man of faith, family and the law in a funeral marked by church ritual and pageantry for the conservative jurist whose larger-than-life personality dominated the high court ...

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