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
commands dual system
Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.
amendment creature inspection judges neither nor police seek send uncertain unwilling
We are unwilling to send police and judges into a new thicket of 4th Amendment law, to seek a creature of uncertain description that is neither a plain-view inspection nor yet a ""full-blown search.
heart locked
is locked in the heart of the president.
best children interest parents
It would be in the best interest of many children to take them away from their parents and give them to someone else. But the parents have rights.
good saying thanksgiving
Are you saying Thanksgiving proclamations are inappropriate? ... I don't see why the one is good and the other is bad.
luck sell
We say 'tough luck, you have to sell it in stores,'
carry death factual innocence mere properly reached reason sentence
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached
reasonably
I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.
great minds
one of the great minds of our generation, of our time.
campaign few thinking
Many times in the campaign I said a few things like that without thinking through the implications of what I was saying.
pays
So if B pays more than A, that's acceptable?
buy crutch maybe tiny
Maybe he wanted to buy a new crutch for Tiny Tim, ... Please, counselor, don't read all these tenderhearted things into it.
against agenda clear democratic normal promoting though
Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda though normal democratic means,
absolutely applied court grounded judicial law majority opinions rule shifting supreme
What distinguishes the rule of law from the dictatorship of a shifting Supreme Court majority is the absolutely indispensable requirement that judicial opinions be grounded in consistently applied principle.