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Scalia Remembered as 'Vigorous Constitutionalist'

Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Feb 15, 2016
News Type: U.S. Supreme Court

"I think his legacy is about originalism," TBA President Bill Harbsion told The Tennessean when describing what he believes U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia will be remembered for. Scalia died suddenly Saturday. He was nominated to the court in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, was a vehement defender of the Constitution and leader of the court’s conservative bloc. While delivering the Constitution Day lecture at Rhodes College in Memphis last fall, Scalia argued against his fellow court members’ decision to overturn the ban on same-sex marriage. “He was a strong dissenter in our marriage case, but he had been on the court a very long time. I was sad to see that news [of his death],” said Harbison, who was part of the legal team in Obergefell v. Hodges. The Tennessean also talked to U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker, U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Vanderbilt law professor Brian Fitzpatrick, Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and Attorney General Herbert Slatery.

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