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Why was Antonin Scalia’s 1986 Senate confirmation historically notable?
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Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Antonin Scalia, 2006.
Antonin Scalia’s 1986 confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States was historically notable because he received a unanimous confirmation vote from the U.S. Senate.1
Additionally, Scalia holds the distinction of being the first Supreme Court justice of Italian ancestry.2