The court's longest-serving justice brought his penetrating mind to bear on the right to life and the nature of marriage in ways that still bear reading, and re-reading, today.
Scalia was an ardent defender of the principle that the right to life has been severely denigrated by the United States Supreme Court since the infamous Roe and Doe surgical abortion decisions of 1973.
Antonin Scalia is almost surely the most influential justice to sit on the Supreme Court in many decades. The loss of his influence, as well as his his crucial vote, is monumental.
'Saying that the Constitution requires [homosexual] practice, which is contrary to the religious beliefs of many of our citizens – I don't know how you can get more extreme than that.'