Antonin Scalia
Antonin Scalia
Antonin Gregory Scalia was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. Appointed to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the Court's conservative wing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 March 1936
CityTrenton, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
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forcing political parties to associate with those who do not share their beliefs. And it has done this at the crucial juncture at which party members traditionally find their collective voice and select their spokesman.
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It's unrealistic to say (that while) he knows of his right to appeal, if the judge told him what he already knew, there would be a different outcome,
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doesn't mean that he has power to do whatever it takes to win the war.
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Does it stop being a quota because it is somewhere between eight and 12 percent, but it is a quota if it is 10 percent? ... Once you use that term 'critical mass,' you're in quota land.
No statute pursues its purposes at all costs, ... This is not play money.
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is locked in the heart of the president.
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I cannot imagine any responsible citizen would have objected to giving the name,
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I do not believe my impartiality can reasonably be questioned,
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The first instinct of power is the retention of power, and under a Constitution that requires periodic elections, that is best achieved by the suppression of election-time speech,
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The First Amendment has not repealed the ancient rule of life, that he who pays the piper calls the tune,
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A judge's lack of predisposition regarding the relevant legal issues in a case has never been thought a necessary component of equal justice, and with good reason, ... For one thing, it is virtually impossible to find a judge who does not have preconceptions about the law.