Antonin Scalia: “Well, you know, if you let Congress think about these things Congress is going to protect incumbents.”

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

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.

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…

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.