Antonin Scalia: “When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage, 1791, 1868?”

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…

I think it is up to the judge to say what the Constitution provided, even if what it provided is not the best answer, even if you think it should be amended. If that is what it says, that is what it says.

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

The court must be living in another world. Day-by-day, case-by-case, it is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.