Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?
From Antonin Scalia
Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?
A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.
I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.
But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.
I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing what I've tried to do for 25-26 years.
Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.
I try to be an honest originalist! I will take the bitter with the sweet!
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