Count first, and rule upon legality afterwards, is not a recipe for producing election results that have the public acceptance democratic stability requires.
Antonin Scalia
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May 28, 2025
The Constitution’s Bill of Rights is designed to guard against a spirit of oppression and tyranny on the part of rulers.
— Antonin Scalia
Congress needs to do its job. You need to write legislation with more specificity.
For my part, I do not look forward to a society which, thanks to the Supreme Court campaigns anonymously hidden from public scrutiny and protected from the accountability of criticism. This does not resemble the home of the brave.
For my part, I do not look forward to a society which, thanks to the Supreme Court campaigns anonymously hidden from public scrutiny and protected from the accountability of criticism. This does not resemble the home of the brave.
For my part, I do not look forward to a society which, thanks to the Supreme Court campaigns anonymously hidden from public scrutiny and protected from the accountability of criticism. This does not resemble the home of the brave.
I do not look forward to a society which, thanks to the Supreme Court campaigns anonymously hidden from public scrutiny, and protected from the accountability of criticism, this does not resemble the home of the brave.
I'm optimistic enough to believe that one day Stenberg v. Carhart will be assigned to its rightful place in the history of this Court's jurisprudence beside Korematsu and Dred Scott.
There is no justification for this Court to read exemptions into the act beyond those provided by Congress. If the act is to be altered, then it is a function for the same body that adopted it.
Government can never have--never have a compelling interest in implementing race-conscious programs that seek to address this Nation's wretched history of racial discrimination.
We should say here that the President's constitutionally assigned duties include complete control over investigation and prosecution of violation of law, and that the inexorable command of Article II is clear and definite. The executive…
Race-conscious programs, I am going to quote him now, are 'racial entitlement.'