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
yield government melting
Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.
government rights way
The government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.
mean errors government
Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the Federal Government,' the Court tries to palm off the pertinent statutory phrase as "inartful drafting.' This Court, however, has no free-floating power 'to rescue Congress from its drafting errors.'
eye race government
In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
burning expresses flag form government mean oral speech symbol written
Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever.
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.