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Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited by the Constitution?

Antonin 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.
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Faith Goodness Judgement Reach Wrong
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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Believe Hands Ourselves Soldier
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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Children Family Kind Perfection
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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Constitution Frame Job Practice Time
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.
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Brain Character Learning Mindset Physical Skills World
Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
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Establishment Meaning State Word
Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
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Public State Wish
This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
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Knowledge Myself Weird
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.
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Destiny Fools Modern Regard Society World
Campaign promises are – by long democratic tradition – the least binding form of human commitment.
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Commitment Democracy Human Promise Tradition
Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
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Bed Burn Room Sanity
One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.
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Believe God Intellectual Reason Religion Sophistication
Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
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Amateuer Decoration Practice Science
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you’d like it to mean?
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Literature Meaning Yourself
Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited by the Constitution?
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Constitution Determination Easy Face Hide
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.
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Act Case Lose Myself Principle Rule Save Short

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