What Does Antonin Scalia's Death Mean for Nonprofits?

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead on Saturday morning, apparently of a heart attack sustained while visiting a hunting ranch in Texas. He was 79.

Scalia, the longest-serving Supreme Court justice in history, was nominated by Ronald Reagan and confirmed by the Senate in 1986. He earned a reputation as the intellectual leader of the Supreme Court’s conservatives, generating strong written opinions and pioneering active questioning of counsel during the oral arguments made before the Supreme Court. He also built a reputation as a staunch opponent of expanding civil rights protections, and, for example, “openly ridiculed claims made by university administrators that building a diverse student body or maintaining student diversity in classrooms served an educational or greater social purpose.”