If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

Lee to Scalia's great disappointment. "
The Court returned to the issue of abortion in the 2000 case of Stenberg v. "
In 2007 the Court upheld a federal statute banning partial-birth abortion in Gonzales v.

Scalia was unanimously confirmed by the Senate and took his seat on September 26 1986. After spending six years in a Cleveland law firm he became a law school professor. Antonin Gregory Scalia (/skəˈlijə/; born March 11 1936) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.