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Antonin Scalia

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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Execution Pain Surgery
Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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Law World Yourself
[International law] doesn’t show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn’t show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what’s fundamentally important to somebody else today.
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Constitution Day Fundamental Important Meaning Original
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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Credit Decision exchange Law Limitation Tax Writing
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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Convert Guarantee Process Race Sex Willing
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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Adoption Citizenship Constitution Flexibility Live Yourself
The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.
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Interest Law Principle Protection Stability State
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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Absolution Break Criminal Death State
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Basement Journey Machine Purpose
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
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
The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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Investigation Silly Weird Wisdom
As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to ‘do what the people want,’ instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically.
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Agreement Confirmation Constitution Document Judgement Politics Thinking
The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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Criminal Determination Guilty Judgement Trust
To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.
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Belief Honesty Regard Simplicity Traditional
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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Essential Order Production Society Virtue

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