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How the San Antonio Express-News broke news of Scalia’s death
By Benjamin Mullin • February 13, 2016

Gary Martin, the government and political editor for the San Antonio Express-News, was working the weekend shift this afternoon when he got a tip from a federal source bearing big news.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who had been a conservative fixture on the high court since his appointment in 1986, was dead, according to the source. As Martin would later report, Scalia had died of "apparent natural causes" at a luxury resort in West Texas.

Martin, who spent 23 years in Washington as the paper's D.C. correspondent, instantly knew it was big news. A vacancy on the Supreme Court during an election year was sure to send reverberations far beyond San Antonio. ....