Antonin Scalia: “Race-conscious programs, I am going to quote him now, are 'racial entitlement.'”

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.

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.

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