98 ordspråk av Antonin Scalia
Antonin Scalia
[Roberts quoted approvingly from comments by] Professor Scalia ... recognized that non-uniformity in the interpretation of federal law could be criticized as 'sloppy,' but asked: compared to what? Given the choice between non-uniformity and the uniform imposition of the judicial excesses embodied in Roe v. Wade, Scalia was prepared to choose the former alternative.
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[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.
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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
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A judge's lack of predisposition regarding the relevant legal issues in a case has never been thought a necessary component of equal justice, and with good reason, ... For one thing, it is virtually impossible to find a judge who does not have preconceptions about the law.
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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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 search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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a serious inability of our political branches to conduct international affairs.
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Abortion is off the democratic stage. Prohibiting it is unconstitutional, now and forever, coast to coast, until I guess we amend the Constitution.
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Antitrust law is not there to protect the merchant, but to protect the consumer,
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Are you saying Thanksgiving proclamations are inappropriate? ... I don't see why the one is good and the other is bad.
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create a lot of problems.
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Does it stop being a quota because it is somewhere between eight and 12 percent, but it is a quota if it is 10 percent? ... Once you use that term 'critical mass,' you're in quota land.
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Does the deck seem stacked against those who oppose abortion? ... You bet.
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doesn't mean that he has power to do whatever it takes to win the war.
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