New Scalia Statue at GMU Law School

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Morning Notes, by ARLnow.com October 5, 2018 at 8:45 am

New Scalia Statue at GMU Law School — “As debate raged on Capitol Hill over a Supreme Court nomination that could shape the court’s future for decades, five justices gathered Thursday at a law school just across the Potomac River for the unveiling of a statue honoring an icon from its recent past — the late justice Antonin Scalia.” {Washington Post}

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New bronze of Antonin Scalia unveiled at law school in Virginia bearing his name

By Nick Anderson
October 4 at 6:17 PM

As debate raged on Capitol Hill over a Supreme Court nomination that could shape the court’s future for decades, five justices gathered Thursday at a law school just across the Potomac River for the unveiling of a statue honoring an icon from its recent past — the late justice Antonin Scalia.

Rising 8½ feet, the larger-than-life bronze sculpture is now the centerpiece of an atrium at the school bearing Scalia’s name at George Mason University in Northern Virginia. It depicts the jurist standing in his court robe, next to a desk he used in his chambers, arms folded and head tilted slightly down in contemplation.

Four who served with Scalia were there — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr., Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas. So was the man who took Scalia’s seat in 2017 a little more than a year after he died — Justice Neil M. Gorsuch.
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Nick Anderson covers higher education and other education topics for The Washington Post. He has been a writer and editor at The Post since 2005. Follow https://twitter.com/wpnick

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1. Kagan???

[JudyM]

2. Striking poetic injustice that he's erected just as another immoral "justice" is about to step up.

Scalia’s loathsome actions pretty much erased the conflict of interest ethical constraints on the Court.