While on a hunting trip in Texas, Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonin Scalia died last night in his sleep. He was 79. Scalia reportedly became ill last night during a hunting trip in Marfa, Texas. The news of his death throws a contentious election season that has played out on television for the better part of a year into tremendous uncertainty, as the task of replacing him falls to Barack Obama just as his final year as President gets under way.