Antonin Scalia Quotes - Page 4

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

  Antonin Scalia

  Purpose, Machines, Basements

  "'Get over it': Justice Scalia's most memorable quotes" by Bill Mears, www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2016.

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• The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.

  Antonin Scalia

  Purpose, Stability, Protect

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

  Antonin Scalia

  Law, Economic, Folly

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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.

  Antonin Scalia

  Cost Benefit Analysis, Taj Mahal, Doctrine

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• The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.

  Antonin Scalia

  Determination, Judging, Guilt

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• It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something.

  Antonin Scalia

  Fighting, Two, Long

  "Antonin Scalia Says Constitution Permits Court To ‘Favor Religion Over Non-Religion’" by Shadee Ashtari, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2, 2014.

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• Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.

  Antonin Scalia

  Should Have, Law, Credit

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.241, Regnery Publishing

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

  Antonin Scalia

  Wish, States

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• It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in many important respects a model of ambiguity or indeed even self-contradiction.

  Antonin Scalia

  Self, Important, Would Be

  "Bells Lose High Court Ruling" by Joanna Glasner, www.wired.com. January 25, 1999.

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

  Antonin Scalia

  Different, Regulation, States

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• [If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.

  Antonin Scalia

  Scary, Done, Should

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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 sex will not be the basis for often will.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Hippie, Rights

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