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.
pain melting causes
This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
country design melting
Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.
christian scary melting
Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.
melting constitution illusion
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.
believe years melting
That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break. But you would have to be an idiot to believe that. The Constitution is not a living organism, it is a legal document. It says something and doesn't say other things.
sure truth
I'm not even sure I wanted it, to tell you the truth,
heart impact
impact my heart in a very big way.
believers god interest majority national religious respect thanks
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.
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,
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.
luck sell
We say 'tough luck, you have to sell it in stores,'
creditor either eyes
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.
good saying thanksgiving
Are you saying Thanksgiving proclamations are inappropriate? ... I don't see why the one is good and the other is bad.