On Feb. 20, a funeral service was held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died at a ranch in Texas on Feb. 13, following a day of hunting. Paul Scalia, a Catholic Priest and one of justice Scalia’s nine children, led the funeral service.
President Barack Obama was not at the funeral service, but he along with more than 6,000 people were at the Supreme Court last Friday Feb. 19, to pay tribute to Scalia.President Obama has insisted that he will nominate a successor to conservative Scalia’s justice position.
