Political Quotes

Antonin Scalia

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Apr 13, 2025

Count first, and rule upon legality afterwards, is not a recipe for producing election results that have the public acceptance democratic stability requires.

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Jul 22, 2024

Congress needs to do its job. You need to write legislation with more specificity.

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Sep 27, 2023

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.

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Sep 27, 2023

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.

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Sep 26, 2023

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.

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Jul 19, 2022

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.

msnbc.com
Mar 20, 2022

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.

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Apr 29, 2019

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.

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Sep 3, 2018

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.

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Sep 3, 2018

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…

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Sep 3, 2018

Race-conscious programs, I am going to quote him now, are 'racial entitlement.'

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