Antonin Scalia: “The counting of votes that are of questionable legality does in my view threaten irreparable harm to... the legitimacy…”

Justice O'Connor's assertion that a fundamental rule of judicial restraint requires us to avoid reconsidering Roe cannot be taken seriously.

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.

it is precisely because we are a cosmopolitan Nation made up of people of every conceivable religious preference, and precisely because we value religious divergence, that we cannot afford the luxury of deeming presumptively invalid, as…

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…