Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?
ANTONIN SCALIATo 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.
More Antonin Scalia Quotes
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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[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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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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The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
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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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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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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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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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Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
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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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Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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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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This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
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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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