More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The Court's decision reflects the philosophy that judges should endure whatever interpretive distortions it takes in order to correct a supposed flaw… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I am something of a contrarian, I suppose. I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, 'I better reexamine… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Winning and losing, that's never been my objective. It's my hope that in the fullness of time, the majority of the court… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered,… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
What secret knowledge, one must wonder, is breathed into lawyers when they become Justices of this Court that enables them to discern… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
We should start calling this law SCOTUScare ... [T]his Court's two decisions on the Act will surely be remembered through the years… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began:… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them - with each decision that is… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea?… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to protect the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If you condemn someone who has committed a crime to be tortured, that would be unconstitutional. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ.… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the extremes of… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
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… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
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