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Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.

~Antonin Scalia

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The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

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I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can't separate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don't want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.

~Antonin Scalia

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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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It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.

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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.

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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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A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.

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Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.

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If there's anything you absolutely hate, why, it must be unconstitutional. Or, if there's anything you absolutely have to have, it must be required by the Constitution. That's where we are. That is utterly mindless.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: March 11th, 1936

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