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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.

Antonin Scalia

Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn’t.
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Allow Constitution Discrimination Rule Sex
Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.
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Corruption Politics Power Togetherness War Willing
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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Death Morning Planning
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
A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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Constitution Economics Law
This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
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Knowledge Myself Weird
People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.
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Better Exercise People Right Yourself
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
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
Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
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Bed Burn Room Sanity
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you’d like it to mean?
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Literature Meaning Yourself
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
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
Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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Law World Yourself
Persuade your fellow citizens it’s a good idea and pass a law. That’s what democracy is all about. It’s not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.
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Citizenship Demand Goodness Ideas Judgement Society Yourself
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
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Constitution Difficult Illusion Invention Maintain Oneself

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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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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