{"id":517099,"date":"2026-03-11T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517099\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T13:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:26:09","slug":"one-of-the-most-influential-supreme-court-justices-was-appointed-by-president-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/517099\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the most influential Supreme Court Justices was appointed by President Reagan."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MONROE, La. (KNOE) &#8211; One of the United States Supreme Court\u2019s most influential Justices was born on March 11, 1936.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey to Italian immigrant parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He graduated from Georgetown University in 1957 as valedictorian, then earned his law degree from Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Scalia practiced law in Ohio in the 1960\u2019s before teaching law at the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He served in both the Nixon and Ford administrations in the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On September 26, 1986 he was sworn in as Reagan\u2019s pick for the Supreme Court. He was the first Supreme Court Justice with Italian ancestors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Justice Scalia was known as a staunch conservative. He was a proponent of interpreting the constitution with the founder\u2019s original intent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was known for his wit, his insightful questioning, and how his colorful opinions influenced the court\u2019s move toward conservatism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Justice Scalia died on February 13, 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KNOE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONROE, La. (KNOE) &#8211; One of the United States Supreme Court\u2019s most influential Justices was born on March&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,166622,151229,151230,3,15304,233785,233786,31887,121861,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-517099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-antonin-scalia","tag-good-morning-arklamiss","tag-good-morning-arklamiss-knoe","tag-news","tag-supreme-court","tag-supreme-court-justice","tag-supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia","tag-this-day-in-history","tag-this-day-in-history-knoe","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}