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
self important would-be
It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in many important respects a model of ambiguity or indeed even self-contradiction.
blow self games
You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good.' Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the constitution? It would be absurd to say you couldn't do that. And once you acknowledge that, we're into a different game.
bones dinner
When dinner is over, it won't be her bones on the table.
decide run
Why not decide in advance? Why not take a run and see,
destroy fear help speech
Why isn't there a fear of extortion if the speech could help destroy his business?
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,'
issue itself legal presented resolve unable
find itself unable to resolve the significant legal issue presented by the case.
absolutely applied court grounded judicial law majority opinions rule shifting supreme
What distinguishes the rule of law from the dictatorship of a shifting Supreme Court majority is the absolutely indispensable requirement that judicial opinions be grounded in consistently applied principle.
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.
personal race unlike
We're all going to be old, ... It's unlike other personal characteristics such as race and sex.
reasonably
I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.
great minds
one of the great minds of our generation, of our time.
pays
So if B pays more than A, that's acceptable?