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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My view is regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad, regardless of how you come out on that, my only point is the Constitution does not say anything about it. It leaves it up to democratic choice.
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If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
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A judge's lack of predisposition regarding the relevant legal issues in a case has never been thought a necessary component of equal justice, and with good reason, ... For one thing, it is virtually impossible to find a judge who does not have preconceptions about the law.
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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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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.
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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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We say 'tough luck, you have to sell it in stores,'
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Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached
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I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.
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one of the great minds of our generation, of our time.
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Many times in the campaign I said a few things like that without thinking through the implications of what I was saying.
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So if B pays more than A, that's acceptable?