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Opinion What we can learn from Ginsburg’s friendship with my father, Antonin Scalia

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September 19, 2020 at 5:39 p.m. EDT
Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, seen in 2014 at the National Press Club in Washington, were close friends. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Eugene Scalia is the U.S. secretary of labor. The views expressed are his own.

Much has been made of the friendship between Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday, and my father, the late Justice Antonin Scalia. I spent many hours with them — 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., to be precise, on many a New Year’s Eve.