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.
ANTONIN SCALIAAs 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.
More Antonin Scalia Quotes
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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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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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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
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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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The death penalty? Give me a break. It’s easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, it was criminal in every state.
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You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
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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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Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.
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Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
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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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[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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Campaign promises are – by long democratic tradition – the least binding form of human commitment.
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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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