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The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.

Antonin Scalia

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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Basement Journey Machine Purpose
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
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
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
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
The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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Criminal Determination Guilty Judgement Trust
Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
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Bed Burn Room Sanity
Campaign promises are – by long democratic tradition – the least binding form of human commitment.
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Commitment Democracy Human Promise Tradition
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
Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
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Amateuer Decoration Practice Science
Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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Law World Yourself
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 wise do not investigate such silliness.
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Investigation Silly Weird Wisdom
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
The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims ‘all Men are endowed by their Creator.’
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Children Creation Independence Parents Right
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

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