i also want to express my deep, deep gratitude to judge jeffrey sutton and paul clement who corps chaired the resolutions committee and the members of the committee. also want to thang jean scalia nor all of his wise counsel during the process each meeting today will bell chair by paul capuche cho, and scott harris is the secretary and i turn the podium and meeting over to paul capuccio. >> thank you, mr. solicitor general, thank you, mr. chief justice. associate justices, justice stephens, madam attorney general, and each of and every one of you who are here today to help with what seems like a nearly impossible task, to pay adequate tribute in a few speeches and resolutions to the extraordinary life, career, and impact of justice antonin scalia. ran tonin scalia was born march 11, 1936, in trenton, new jersey. he was raided in queens, new york. he is the son of salvatore eugene scalia, an immigrant from sicily, who katherine louise scalia, from trenton, new jersey. both of his parents were teachers. and while a relatively modest financial means the household in which the future justice

our next speaker is the honorable jeffrey sutton, united states court of appeals for the sixth circuit. jeff, i believe was a clerk in 1991. jeff: justice scalia would have been grateful for today's ceremony, but i wonder if you would have noted with his rise file one potentially awkward feature of it. isn't what we are doing with these remarks, this resolution, and this meeting of the bar uncomfortably close to one of his favorite targets in life? after-the-fact legislative history. tryinge not accuse of us to smuggle a from a set of submissions into the u.s. reports in order to varnish this or that part of his life to make it look like something it was not? happily for us, there is no such risk here. if there is one point on which we can all agree, it is that justice scalia led an unambiguous life. there is so much evidence, so much clear right text about where he stood about where he stood on just about everything. want to know about where he stood on statutory and constitutional interpretation? want to know his views about the canons of construction? want to know his views about th

and the members of that --mmittee i also want to express my deep gratitude to judge jeffrey sutton andauclenwhired the resolutions committee and the members of that committee. [naming members of committee] mr. gershengorn: i want to thank for his wise counsel. i now turn the podium and the meeting over to paul. paul: thank you, mr. solicitor general. thank you, mr. chief justice, justicee justice, stevens, madam attorney general, and each and every one of you were here today to help with what seems like a nearly impossible task, to pay adequate tribute in a few speeches and resolutions to the extraordinary and impact of justice antonin scalia. antonin scalia a was born march 11, 1936 come in trenton, new jersey, and was raised in queens, new york. scaliahe son of salvador and catherine louise scalia from trenton, new jersey. both of his parents were teachers. and while of relatively modest financial means, the household in which the future justice was to be raised was by all accounts very wealthy, in faith in values, and in the love of and dedication to learning and teaching. so let us not for