With the death of Antonin Gregory Scalia the nation has lost one of its greatest jurists and a man who embodied the principle of fidelity to the Constitution.
'What we see in history is that God can use even the death of individuals to show people how serious, how life-and-death these situations are in which we are involved.'
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.