Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
ANTONIN SCALIAIf you’re going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you’re not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you’re probably doing something wrong.
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I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
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Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act’s limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.
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Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.
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Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn’t.
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If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
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In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
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But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.
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If you’re going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you’re not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you’re probably doing something wrong.
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Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.
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In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it’s not perfect, that’s okay, there are a lot more coming along.
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The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.
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The court’s job is to uphold the Constitution and you don’t call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?
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Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
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