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CLASS: Trump To Honor Scalia’s Widow At Tuesday’s Address

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Kevin Daley Supreme Court correspondent
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President Donald Trump has invited Maureen Scalia, wife of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, to join him as a special guest at Tuesday’s presidential address to a joint session of Congress.

Mrs. Scalia will sit with First Lady Melania Trump on a balcony in the chamber of the House of Representatives, which is reserved for special guests of the president.

The president has made Mrs. Scalia a prominent fixture in the social programming of his administration. She was present at Trump’s invitation in the East Room of the White House when he announced the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to succeed her husband on the Supreme Court. Gorsuch met with Mrs. Scalia and her son Fr. Paul Scalia, who is a Catholic priest in the diocese of Arlington, Va.

The couple met in 1960 when Justice Scalia was a student at Harvard Law School. They frequently referred to their nuptials as a “mixed marriage” as Justice Scalia was Sicilian, while Maureen (née McCarthy) is Irish. They were married for over 50 years and had nine children.

Other special guests invited by the president include two families who lost loved ones in crimes committed by illegal immigrants, a charter school graduate who became the first in her family to graduate from college, and a 20-year-old whose father’s pharmaceutical start-up saved her from a rare disease.

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