Slideshow: A Life in Washington, Scalia Dead at 79

By Gillian Roberts

Posted February 13, 2016 at 8:53pm

Justice Antonin Scalia, a stalwart conservative justice on the Supreme Court, died in Texas on Saturday.

Here’s a look through CQ Roll Call’s photo archives of the judge who sat on the high court since 1986.

<div style=”display:none”><section><h2>A Life in Washington: Scalia Dead at 79</h2><p><div>Justice Antonin Scalia, a stalwart conservative justice on the Supreme Court since 1986, died in Texas on Saturday.&nbsp;While rare for a sitting justice to testify on the Hill, Scalia did several times during his tenure on the high court. Here’s a look through the CQ Roll Call photo archives of Scalia’s time in Washington. </div><div>(photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)</div></p></section><section><h3>On the Hill in ’92</h3><p><div>Scalia, with fellow Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, at a 1992 Senate appropriations hearing. </div><div>(CQ Roll Call file photo)</div></p></section><section><h3>In 2005, Scalia Mourned Rehnquist</h3><p><div>Scalia and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas stand on the steps of the court as pallbearers carry the casket of Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist. Before Scalia, Rehnquist was the last justice to die while sitting on the high court.</div><div>(CQ Roll Call file photo)</div></p></section><section><h3>Scalia and Breyer in 2006</h3><p><div>Scalia and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer walk to the stage in December 2006 for an event sponsored by the Federalist Society and the American Constitution Society at the Capital Hilton. The event was called: “A Conversation on the Constitution: Perspectives from Active Liberty and A Matter of Interpretation.” </div><div>(photo: Scott J. Ferrell/CQ Roll Call)</div></p></section><section><h3>Senate Testimony in 2011</h3><p><div>From left, then Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., ranking member Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, and justices Scalia and Breyer arrive for a hearing in Hart Building entitled “Considering the Role of Judges Under the Constitution of the United States.”</div><div>(photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) &nbsp;</div></p></section><section><h3>Scalia: Judge Role is ‘Important,’ but ‘Limited'</h3><p><div>Scalia at the same October 2011 Senate hearing. “I believe that the role of judges under the Constitution is an important, but limited one,” he said. “Unless the Constitution provides otherwise, the people through their elected representatives govern themselves. In determining the meaning of the Constitution, judges are to apply the intent of the framers, since that is the extent of the limitation on self-government that the people have agreed to impose on themselves.”</div><div>(photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) &nbsp;</div></p></section><section><h3>On Inauguration Day, 2013</h3><p><div>President Barack Obama greets Supreme Court Justices (L-R) Clarence Thomas; Scalia; Sonia Sotomayor; Anthony Kennedy; and John Roberts at the inauguration for his second term of office. </div><div>(photo: Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call) &nbsp;</div></p></section></div>

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Slideshow: A Life in Washington, Scalia Dead at 79

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