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.
From Antonin Scalia
Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.
The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.
In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
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.
A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest.
Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.
There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution.
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