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 SCALIAWords no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
More Antonin Scalia Quotes
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Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.
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[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.
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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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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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It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
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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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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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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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The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
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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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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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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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This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
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