Antonin Scalia: “Congress needs to do its job. You need to write legislation with more specificity.”

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

Even the name of it is wonderful, the Voting Rights Act. Who is going to vote against that in the future?

The counting of votes that are of questionable legality does in my view threaten irreparable harm to... the legitimacy of the election.

as much as I think that it is improper to use foreign law to determine the meaning of the Constitution, I don't think it's any of [Congress's] business . . . if you can tell us not to use foreign laws, you can tell us not to use certain…