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.
ANTONIN SCALIAI 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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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] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.
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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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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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Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
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The court’s job is to uphold the Constitution and you don’t call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?
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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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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 law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
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In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
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You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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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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