American - Judge | March 11, 1936 -
I'm nervous about our civic culture. I'm not sure the Internet is largely the cause of it. It's certainly the cause of careless writing. People who get used to blurbing things on the Internet are never going to be good writers.
Antonin Scalia
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I'm a law-and-order guy. I mean, I confess I'm a social conservative, but it does not affect my views on cases.
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If you condemn someone who has committed a crime to be tortured, that would be unconstitutional.
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Indeed, follow your star if you want to head north and it's the North Star. But if you want to head north and it's Mars, you had better follow somebody else's star.
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More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.
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A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest.
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By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition.
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And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stupid, but it is not unconstitutional. A lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional.
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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.
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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
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