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
invent
It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.
governed history means relevant says sort text whether
Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.
believe everybody less nobody pointing side worst
I am something of a contrarian, I suppose. I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, 'I better reexamine my position!' I probably believe that the worst opinions in my court have been unanimous. Because there's nobody on the other side pointing out all the flaws.
issue itself legal presented resolve unable
find itself unable to resolve the significant legal issue presented by the case.
associate collective crucial forcing juncture members parties party political select share voice
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.
judge knows
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,
mean power takes whatever win
doesn't mean that he has power to do whatever it takes to win the war.
eight somewhere stop term
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.
evidence intent
It was at most an irresponsibly speedy chase, ... Is there any evidence that there was an intent to kill anybody?
believe families immoral lifestyle protecting themselves view
They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive,
ban forget tried
We tried a ban of (alcohol) and decided, forget about it,
determination judging guilt
The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
self important would-be
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.
sex hippie rights
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.