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Antonin Scalia’s death – a chance for Obama to leave a legacy?

Ruth Tarrant

21st February 2016

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Justice Antonin Scalia, one of 9 justices on the US Supreme Court, and one of its most conservative judges, died unexpectedly aged 79 on February 13th 2016. This blog entry provides some analysis of the potential impact of his death.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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