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I am something of a contrarian, I suppose. I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, 'I better reexamine my position!' I probably believe that the worst opinions in my court have been unanimous. Because there's nobody on the other side pointing out all the flaws.

~Antonin Scalia

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More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.

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If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.

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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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The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes - outweighs the risk of error.

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Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.

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As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a legislative measure that comes before them, lest it be thought that their validation, invalidation, or interpretation of it is driven by their desire to expand or constrict what they personally approve or disapprove as a matter of policy.

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I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing what I've tried to do for 25-26 years.

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Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

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Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: March 11th, 1936

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