Supreme Court · Associate Justice
Antonin Scalia
Republican appointee: Appointed by Ronald Reagan (R)
Served 1986–2016 · 30 terms
Confirmed 98–0
Biography
Antonin Gregory Scalia was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the Court's conservative wing.
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Ideology over time
Scalia and the 17 justices who overlapped with Scalia, 1986–2015
- Antonin Scalia
- 95% credible interval
- Peer, appointed by a Democrat
- Peer, appointed by a Republican
- Court median
How to read this
Martin–Quinn scores place each justice on a single liberal–conservative dimension, estimated from their votes across terms, with scores allowed to shift from one term to the next. Higher is more conservative. The shaded band is the credible interval: wider when the record is thin, especially in a justice’s first terms, and narrower as votes accumulate.
Where Scalia sits among all justices
Career average, every justice in the data set
Scalia’s range across terms
Served alongside Scalia
17 justicesClosest career average first. Filled dot: the peer. Ring: Scalia.
How Scalia voted
Every argued case Scalia took part in, newest first, with how Scalia voted in each: with the majority, in dissent, or in an equally divided Court. A Liberal or Conservative tag is the Supreme Court Database’s coding of who prevailed in the case, not a rating of the justices.
Data notes
The Decisions page’s argued cases with this justice’s vote from the Supreme Court Database. “Majority” includes a concurrence; a vote that dissented in part is coded by the side the justice took overall. Cases the justice sat out and equally divided cases are left out of the percentages. “Wrote” means authored an opinion. Source: Supreme Court Database (Spaeth et al.).