Justice Antonin Scalia Dead At 79

WASHINGTON (AP) — Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, has died, leaving the high court without its conservative majority and setting up an ideological confrontation over his successor in the maelstrom of a presidential election year. Scalia's death leaves President Barack weighing when to nominate a successor, a decision sure to spark a huge political struggle drawing in the Republicans and Democrats running to replace him. Obama learned about Scalia's death Saturday afternoon while playing golf in La Quinta, California, before a summit with Asian leaders, and offered condolences to Scalia's family, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said. Scalia's impact on the court was muted by his seeming disregard for moderating his views to help build consensus, although he was held in deep affection by his ideological opposites Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan. In 2007, Scalia sided with Chief Justice John Roberts in a decision that gave corporations and labor unions wide latitude to air political ads close to elections. The only child of an Italian immigrant father who was a professor of Romance languages and a mother who taught elementary school, Scalia attended public schools in his native New Jersey, graduated first in his class at Georgetown University and won high honors at the Harvard University Law School.

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