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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's seldom-recalled role as general counsel at the White House telecommunications office early in his career helped to clear a path for innovations that included cell phones, non-AT&T (NYSE:T) landlines, satellite television and radio, and the launch of CNN and other video channels.Investors and business leaders need to know they have firm legal ground to launch new services before they will invest in the deployment of the latest technologies and Justice Scalia took part in helping to open once-closed markets in 1971-72 while he worked at the Office of Telecommunications Policy in the Executive Office...

Justice Scalia's Great HeartMay God rest his soul Jeffrey Tucker Saturday, February 13, 2016 Some of Justice Antonin Scalia's decisions I agreed with and some I disagreed with. But I've never once doubted the sincerity of his beliefs. Now that he is gone from this earth, I can tell a story I've held inside for many years, a scene that touched me deeply and profoundly. I cannot think of him without remembering this moment. It was a spring afternoon some years ago, and he was attending church services, sitting in a back pew, holding his prayer book in his hands....

As the nation pays its respects to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Friday, friends and admirers say they will remember his combination of gregarious charm and matchless intellect that conservatives revered and many liberals couldn't help but respect. Whether he was writing for the majority or authoring a biting dissent, Justice Scalia's fidelity to his conservative "originalist" view of the law and his analytical mind have placed him alongside legal giants such as Louis Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Along the way, the intellectual force of his reasoning commanded appreciation. "I am sure he's going to...

With the death of Antonin Scalia on Saturday, the Supreme Court lost not only its longest-serving justice but also the most outspoken member of its conservative wing. A careful analysis of his tenure, however, shows that Scalia was almost never the most conservative justice on the court, and in fact moved leftward during the second half of his 30 years on the bench. With the exception of the 2014 term, he was usually in the majority in the court's rulings, and the future direction of the court pivots on his replacement. While a discussion of Justice Scalia's most notable opinions1...