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Justice Clarence Thomas

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A Tribute to Justice Antonin Scalia

Justice Clarence Thomas

I was blessed to have had Antonin Scalia as a colleague and as a dear friend. I did not know Nino when I joined the Court in 1991, and we certainly made an unlikely pair: a northerner from a house of educators, and a southerner from a house of almost no formal education. “Friendship,” h…