Justice Antonin Scalia – 1st Italian American appointed to U.S. Supreme Court – dies at age of 79
Antonin Gregory Scalia, the first Italian American to be appointed as a justice on the United States Supreme Court, died Saturday, Feb. 13 of natural causes. He was 79. Appointed to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the Court’s conservative wing. Scalia was born Mar. 11, 1936 in Trenton, New Jersey. He was the only child of Salvatore Eugene Scalia, an immigrant from Sicily, and Catherine Louise (Panaro) Scalia, who was born in Trenton to Italian immigrant parents. Salvatore was a graduate student and clerk at the time of his son’s birth, and, later became a professor of Romance languages at Brooklyn College. Catherine worked as an elementary school teacher. Salvatore and Catherine’s son
attended public grade school. After graduating eighth grade, he obtained a scholarship to Xavier High School, a Jesuit military school in Manhattan, New York City, where he finished first in his class of 1953 and served as valedictorian. Scalia obtained his law degree from Harvard Law School and spent six years in a Cleveland (Ohio) law firm before he became a law school professor at the University of Virginia. In the early 1970s, he served in the Nixon and Ford administrations, eventually as an Assistant Attorney General. He spent most of the Carter years teaching at the University of Chicago, where he became one of the first faculty advisers of the fledgling Federalist Society. In 1982, Ronald Reagan appointed him as judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Court.
The late Justice Antonin Scalia
Four years later, Reagan nominated him to the U.S. Supreme Court. His nomination was approved by the Senate on Sept. 17, 1986. Scalia succeeded William Rehnquist, a
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Milwaukee native and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Scalia served on the Court for nearly 30 years, during which time he established a consistently conservative voting record and ideology, advocating textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in constitutional interpretation. He was a strong defender of the powers of the executive branch, believing presidential powers should be paramount in many areas. He opposed affirmative action and other policies that treated minorities as special groups. Scalia met his wife-to-be on a blind date while he attended Harvard Law School. He and Maureen McCarthy were married on Sept. 10, 1960. Both were devout Roman Catholics. The couple raised nine children, five boys and four girls. He enjoyed opera and often attended performances with fellow Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal member of the Court.
Lezzeno to hold Palio dei Falo
The city of Lezzeno on Lake Como in the Lombardy region of Italy hosts the Palio dei Falo, an annual bonfire held in the middle of March. Citizens have participated in the bonfire since the 1100s, when it is thought that the city was attacked and burned by residents of neighboring Como. Some historians also suggest that the bonfire commemorates the widespread burning of witches during that time. Participants organize into groups and compete as to who can create the biggest blaze. The bonfires are famous for lighting up the shores of Lake Como.
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