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Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.

Antonin Scalia

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
ANTONIN SCALIA

Law World Yourself
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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Constitution Determination Easy Face Hide
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
[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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Constitution Day Fundamental Important Meaning Original
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
[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
This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
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Knowledge Myself Weird
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
Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
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Amateuer Decoration Practice Science
To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.
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Belief Honesty Regard Simplicity Traditional
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
With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation’s historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists.
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Acknowledgement Atheist History Nation Practice Public Respect
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
A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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Constitution Economics Law
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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