Antonin Scalia once said, “Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ and have the courage to suffer the sophisticated world” (The 11 most memorable Scalia quotes). In 1986, Ronald Reagan appointed Scalia to the Supreme Court. Although he passed away on the thirteenth of February 2016, I would have been elated to have lunch with Antonin Scalia while he was still living. Scalia was a man that had no shame of himself; he assertively expressed his opinions and beliefs, despite if they were unpopular. I have the utmost respect for Antonin Scalia, and if I were to meet his acquaintance, there would be multifarious subjects for us to converse about. The word “honorable” can aptly characterize Scalia for his…show more content… Spending twenty-nine years of his life on the court, Scalia never grew tired of his daily routine. He initially began pursuing the legal career….. I would like to ask Scalia how he knew he wanted pursue a career in the legal field. Did he grow up with the aspiration of becoming a Supreme Court Justice; did that have any impact on the infinite time Antonin Scalia spent engulfed in school work? Antonin Scalia held the firm belief that the constitution should be interpreted as the framers intended. “You could fire a grapefruit out of a cannon over the best law schools in the country—and that includes Chicago—and not hit an originalist,” The concept of originalism is not necessarily popular amongst the other members of the Supreme Court (besides Clarence Thomas), nevertheless, Scalia’s confidence in his decisions remained apparent. Finding out what led Scalia to have such a
Personally, I think of Antonin Scalia as the Supreme Court Justice with the best sense of humor. In regards to Scalia’s death, president Obama made the statement, “He will no doubt be remembered as one of the most consequential judges to serve on the Supreme
