Antonin Scalia, who has now worked for the law firm of Jones, Day, Cockley, and Reavis in Cleveland, Ohio for six years, turns down the law professor position for the University of Virginia. Because of the influence of a professor he had at college (a course he almost didn't take) he mulls over running for Congress in his hometown of Queens instead. Scalia, with the backing of New York Mayor John Lindsay, easily wins election to the 3rd district. During his first year in Congress, Scalia establishes a reputation as a conservative and constitutionalist.