Born on March 11, 1936 in Trenton, New Jersey, Antonin Scalia was the only child of Eugene and Catherine Scalia. His father was an Italian immigrant who worked as a professor and his mother, an Italian-American, taught school. Scalia attended public school in Queens, NY where he adopted the name "Nino" (Smith, 1993). He later enrolled in St. Francis Xavier, a military prep school where he graduated at the top of his class. Academic success followed him to Georgetown University where he completed his undergraduate degree in History and graduated as class valedictorian. Scalia went on to Harvard Law School and graduated magna cum laude in 1960. Later that year he met and married Maureen McCarthy, the couple has 9 children.
             Scalia has a very impressive professional resume; his legal career began in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1962. By 1967 he decided to change professions to and taught law at the University of Virginia for four years (http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/scalia.bio.html). Scalia made a good impression among his academic peers but his heart was set on active politics rather than academic law. His next career move was into the government services, where he started as a general counsel for the Office of Telecommunication Policy under the Nixon administration. Here he successfully negotiated a major agreement between industry leaders to organize the growth of cable television (Smith, 1993). Just before Nixon resigned he nominated Scalia to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.
             In 1986, President Regan promoted William Rehnquist to the position of Chief Justice. To fill the vacancy created by Rehnquist's promotion, Regan nominated Scalia to the Supreme Court.
             Antonin Scalia is one of the most colorful and lively justices on the nine-member bench; no other justice has one, yet alone two websites set up by admirers. On the other hand, there are cr
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