The wise do not investigate such silliness.
ANTONIN SCALIAWhy in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
More Antonin Scalia Quotes
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Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ’s sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.
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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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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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Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited by the Constitution?
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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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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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Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
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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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It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
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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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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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The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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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 virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly.
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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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