Antonin Scalia Quotes

• A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

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• You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations… until they were all litigated out.

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• Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

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• Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?

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• What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you’d like it to mean?

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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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•  The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or s*x will not be the basis for often will.

   

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• 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.

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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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• If we’re picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a ‘new’ Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

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• A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

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• A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

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Antonin Scalia (12)

Birth:	11th March, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Judge, Professor

About

Antonin Gregory Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. As the longest-serving justice currently on the Court, Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice. Appointed to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia has been described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the Court's conservative wing.  He attended Georgetown University as an undergraduate and obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from Harvard Law School. After spending six years in a Cleveland law firm, he became a law school professor.

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• 1915 - Paul Samuelson
• 1895 - Prescott Bush
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• 1940 - Roger Ailes

Deaths

• 2008 - Willis Lamb
• 1925 - Nelson A. Miles
• 1949 - Mary Antin
• 1978 - Robert Menzies
• 1976 - Samuel Eliot Morison