Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.
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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In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
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People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.
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The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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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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With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation’s historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists.
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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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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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Campaign promises are – by long democratic tradition – the least binding form of human commitment.
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If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?
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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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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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