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Antonin Scalia58 quotes“The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.”
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia 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.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia 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.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia 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.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ’s sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia 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.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia On this day, when we’re celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage – to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it’s a good idea.
Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade I’m just saying the producers and people who work on music are getting left out – that’s when it starts getting criminal. It’s like you’re working hard, and you’re not receiving. In any other business, people would be standing before Congress. They have antitrust laws against this kind of behavior.
Jay-ZJay-Z Get his master’s in criminal justice, stayed out of trouble. Played for three different teams. Changed three different franchises around.
Shaquille O'NealShaquille O'Neal We don’t let criminals serve in our office as president.
Marjorie Taylor GreeneMarjorie Taylor Greene Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne You can not stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims.
Alan GottliebAlan Gottlieb The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases.
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