A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
ANTONIN SCALIAInterior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
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The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.
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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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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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In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
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[International law] doesn’t show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn’t show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what’s fundamentally important to somebody else today.
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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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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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The purpose of the Federalist Society was to bring together young people who had this skepticism about what they were being taught and to let them know that there were others who shared this skepticism.
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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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If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That’s flexibility.
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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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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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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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