Antonin Scalia’s jurisprudential legacy has flourished far beyond what anyone might have reasonably imagined at the time of his death 10 years ago. By keeping his Supreme Court seat open through the 2016 presidential election, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell gave lots of conservatives who were leery of Donald Trump one strong reason to vote for him. Trump won a close election that he would otherwise have lost. Trump in turn appointed three justices—all admirers of Scalia—and created a conservative majority on the Court for the first time in nearly a century.
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