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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.

Antonin Scalia

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
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
This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
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Knowledge Myself Weird
The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.
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Interest Law Principle Protection Stability State
One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.
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The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion.
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Fight Government Religion Thinking True
You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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Different Regulation State Yourself
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 wise do not investigate such silliness.
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A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
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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
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
A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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Constitution Economics Law
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you’d like it to mean?
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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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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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