Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Dead At 79

jgerstein@politico.com (Josh Gerstein), Politico
Sat, 02/13/2016 - 3:14pm

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died at the age of 79, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in a statement on Saturday.The statement did not indicate the cause of death, but several news outlets reported that he died of natural causes while on a hunting trip in Texas this weekend.Scalia, widely regarded as the intellectual leader of the court's conservative wing, was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court in 1986.President Barack Obama is expected to face fierce — if not insurmountable — resistance in the Senate to any nominee that he might put forth, especially given that it's an election year.Scalia generally joined with the court's other conservatives on polarized rulings in recent years, issuing caustic dissents as the court found a right to gay marriage and upheld key parts of Obamacare.However, his jurisprudence also demonstrated a libertarian streak.

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