In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
ANTONIN SCALIAUnder 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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[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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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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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
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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.
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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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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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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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This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
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[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.
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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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Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
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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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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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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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