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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?

Antonin Scalia

[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
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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Credit Decision exchange Law Limitation Tax Writing
Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
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Public State Wish
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
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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Execution Pain Surgery
I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
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Acceptance Argument Encouragement Myself Sexuality
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
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
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
A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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Basement Journey Machine Purpose
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
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
The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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Investigation Silly Weird Wisdom
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.
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Convert Guarantee Process Race Sex Willing
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
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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Freedom Intimacy Marriage Oneself Spirituality
The court’s job is to uphold the Constitution and you don’t call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?
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Constitution Frame Job Practice Time
This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
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Knowledge Myself Weird
Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
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Bed Burn Room Sanity
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
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
For in order for capitalism to work — in order for it to produce a good and a stable society — the traditional Christian virtues are essential.
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Essential Order Production Society Virtue
I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion.
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Fight Government Religion Thinking True
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
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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Believe God Intellectual Reason Religion Sophistication
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
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

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