Editing Antonin Scalia (section)

==Early legal career (1961–1982)==

Scalia began his legal career at the law firm Jones, Day, Cockley and Reavis (now [[Jones Day]]) in [[Cleveland, Ohio]], where he worked from 1961 to 1967.<ref name="hlrecord" /> He was highly regarded at the law firm and would most likely have been made a partner but later said he had long intended to teach. He left Jones Day in 1967 to become a professor at the [[University of Virginia School of Law]], moving his family to [[Charlottesville, Virginia|Charlottesville]].<ref name="canteach">{{Harvnb|Biskupic|2009|pp=37–38}}.</ref>

After four years in Charlottesville, Scalia entered public service in 1971. President [[Richard Nixon]] appointed him general counsel for the [[Office of Telecommunications Policy]], where one of his principal assignments was to formulate federal policy for the growth of cable television. From 1972 to 1974, he was chairman of the [[Administrative Conference of the United States]], a small [[independent agency]] that sought to improve the functioning of the federal bureaucracy.<ref name="pbs" /> In mid-1974, Nixon nominated him as [[United States Assistant Attorney General|Assistant Attorney General]] for the [[Office of Legal Counsel]].<ref name="pbs" /> After Nixon's resignation, the nomination was continued by President [[Gerald Ford]], and Scalia was confirmed by the Senate on August 22, 1974.{{sfn|Biskupic|2009|p=40}}

In the aftermath of [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]], the Ford administration was engaged in a number of conflicts with Congress. Scalia repeatedly testified before congressional committees, defending Ford administration assertions of [[executive privilege]] regarding its refusal to turn over documents.{{sfn|Biskupic|2009|pp=49–53}} Within the administration, Scalia advocated a presidential veto for a bill to amend the [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]], which would greatly increase the act's scope. Scalia's view prevailed, and Ford vetoed the bill, but Congress overrode it.{{sfn|Biskupic|2009|pp=45–47}} In early 1976, Scalia argued his only case before the Supreme Court, ''Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba''. Scalia, on behalf of the U.S. government, argued in support of Dunhill, and that position was successful.{{sfn|Biskupic|2009|pp=63, 374}}
Following Ford's defeat by President [[Jimmy Carter]], Scalia worked for several months at the [[American Enterprise Institute]].{{sfn|Staab|2006|pp=13–14}}

He then returned to academia, taking up residence at the [[University of Chicago Law School]] from 1977 to 1982,<ref name="chic" /> though he spent one year as a [[visiting professor]] at [[Stanford Law School]].{{sfn|Staab|2006|p=19}} During Scalia's time at Chicago, [[Peter H. Russell]] hired him on behalf of the Canadian government to write a report on how the United States was able to limit the activities of its secret services for the [[Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP|McDonald Commission]], which was investigating abuses by the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]]. The report—finished in 1979—encouraged the commission to recommend that a balance be struck between civil liberties and the essentially unchecked activities of the RCMP.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fine |first=Sean |date=January 13, 2017 |title=The untold story of how a young Antonin Scalia's 'gift to Canada' shaped our spy services |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/antonin-scalia-the-untold-story/article33614417/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815092305/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/antonin-scalia-the-untold-story/article33614417/ |archive-date=August 15, 2020 |access-date=January 13, 2017 |work=[[The Globe and Mail]]}}</ref> In 1981, he became the first faculty adviser for the University of Chicago's chapter of the newly founded [[Federalist Society]].<ref name="chic">{{Citation |last=Shipp |first=E. R. |title=Scalia's Midwestern colleagues cite his love of debate, poker, and piano |date=July 26, 1986 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/26/us/scalia-s-midwest-colleagues-cite-his-love-of-debate-poker-and-piano.html |access-date=January 13, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230131314/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/26/us/scalia-s-midwest-colleagues-cite-his-love-of-debate-poker-and-piano.html |archive-date=December 30, 2019 |url-status=live |author-link=E. R. Shipp}}</ref>