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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It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.
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But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.
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Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached
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I'm not even sure I wanted it, to tell you the truth,
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impact my heart in a very big way.
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the interest of the overwhelming majority of religious believers in being able to give God thanks and supplication as a people, and with respect to our national endeavors.
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They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive,
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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.
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We say 'tough luck, you have to sell it in stores,'
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There can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race, ... In the eyes of government, we are just one race, it is American.
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Are you saying Thanksgiving proclamations are inappropriate? ... I don't see why the one is good and the other is bad.
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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.
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is locked in the heart of the president.
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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.