Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
ANTONIN SCALIA[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.
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The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims ‘all Men are endowed by their Creator.’
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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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For in order for capitalism to work — in order for it to produce a good and a stable society — the traditional Christian virtues are essential.
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You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
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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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I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
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If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That’s flexibility.
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It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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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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To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.
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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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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.
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