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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.

Antonin Scalia

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
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Bed Burn Room Sanity
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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Ambience Contradiction Model Respect Statement
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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Feeling Moral Murder Sexuality
Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
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Establishment Meaning State Word
[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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Constitution Enjoyment Government Minimum Right Time Violence War Yourself
Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
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Public State Wish
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
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Constitution Crime Privacy Protection Realization
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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Believe Hands Ourselves Soldier
The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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Investigation Silly Weird Wisdom
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 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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Benefit Consequence Cost Freedom Ignorance
A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
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Majority Right Worth
On this day, when we’re celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage – to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it’s a good idea.
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Celebration Constitution Day Faith Goodness Ideas Invention Restriction
A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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Close Search Table
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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Faith Goodness Judgement Reach Wrong
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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Busy Case Constitution Country Day Recognition

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