Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
ANTONIN SCALIABear 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.
More Antonin Scalia Quotes
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The purpose of the Federalist Society was to bring together young people who had this skepticism about what they were being taught and to let them know that there were others who shared this skepticism.
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The death penalty? Give me a break. It’s easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, it was criminal in every state.
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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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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.
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Campaign promises are – by long democratic tradition – the least binding form of human commitment.
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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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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.
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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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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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It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in many important respects a model of ambiguity or indeed even self-contradiction.
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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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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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