Antonin Scalia
Antonin Scalia
Antonin Gregory Scalia was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. Appointed to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the Court's conservative wing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 March 1936
CityTrenton, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
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He leads me to my best efforts because he is so sharp. It's a challenge to write something as persuasive as his arguments. We are very fond of each other.
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I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.
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I would think the normal assumption is if one person wants that search excluded, that search is excluded.
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one of the great minds of our generation, of our time.
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Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached
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Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.
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I saw nothing amiss in that friendly letter and invitation, ... I surely would have thought otherwise if I had applied the standards urged in the present motion.
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He had a skin problem? ... Who would have thought this could lead to cold-blooded murder?
amazing amount ought
The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.
I try to be an honest originalist! I will take the bitter with the sweet!
I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.
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I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws, due process of law, cruel and unusual punishments. I fully accept that those things have to apply to new phenomena that didn't exist at the time.
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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 flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever.
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What distinguishes the rule of law from the dictatorship of a shifting Supreme Court majority is the absolutely indispensable requirement that judicial opinions be grounded in consistently applied principle.