Court for nearly 30 years and he was the first italianamerican justice on the high court. Considered one of the more prominent legal think kearse of his generation scalia was known for delivering blunt and even scathing pins. He was often accused by his oppose sers of a allowing his conservative views to influence his legal judgment. But did he on occasion please liberals by up holding free speech in cases like the texas flag byrneing. Scalias death at age 79 will have a huge effect on the makeup of the court. The death of scalia opens the door for president obama to nominate someone to replace him on that bench and that could tip the balance of power in the court as we said scalia was known to be a conservative justice. His replacement is likely to lean more liberal. President obamas previous nominations for justices are Sonya Sotomayor and elena kagan. Text Governor Abbott had this to stay devastating loss of Justice Scalia a legal giant who steered the Supreme Court on to the consti
About. Good saturday to you. Nice to be with you. Im leland vitter. And im elizabeth prann. Welcome to americas news headquarters from washington. Coming in just minutes ago, as the president ial candidates enter the thick of the primary season, its a saturday document dump. After missing a deadline and being admonished by a federal judge, the state Department Releases the latest batch of Hillary Clintons emails from her time as secretary of state. Our own Kristin Fisher is taking a look at them from right here in washington. Hi, kristen. So the state Department Released this latest batch less than an hour ago. Were still sorting through hundreds of emails, but heres what we know now. Of the 551 emails released today, 84 of them contain classified information. A state Department Official says those 84 documents were upgraded to classified today. That they were not marked classified at the time they were sent. But as weve been reporting for many months now, clintons critics argue, it do