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
changing constitution enduring gotten longer meant truth
I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no longer say that. The truth is that the Constitution is not one that morphs. It's an enduring Constitution, not a changing Constitution. That is what I've meant when I've said that the Constitution is dead.
fighting two long
It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something.
commitment long promise
Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.
law judging long
As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically.
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?