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
thinking order law
Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular Congress that enacted a particular provision. That methodology is not mine nor, I think, the one that courts have traditionally followed. It is our task, as I see it, not to enter the minds of the Members of Congress - who need have nothing in mind in order for their votes to be both lawful and effective - but rather to give fair and reasonable meaning to the text of the United States Code, adopted by various Congresses at various times.
order liberty realization
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
christian order essentials
For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.
philosophy order law
The Court's decision reflects the philosophy that judges should endure whatever interpretive distortions it takes in order to correct a supposed flaw in the statutory machinery. That philosophy ignores the American people's decision to give Congress '[a]ll legislative Powers' enumerated in the Constitution. They made Congress, not this Court, responsible for both making laws and mending them.
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?