Antonin Scalia, Conservative High Court Justice, Dies at 79
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Antonin Scalia, the sharp-tongued U.S. Supreme Court justice who sought to limit constitutional protections to those envisioned by the nation’s founders, has died. He was 79.
Scalia was visiting the luxury Cibolo Creek Ranch resort near Marfa in West Texas, where the U.S. Marshals Service confirmed he was found dead on Saturday, according to the Associated Press. A cause of death wasn’t immediately known.