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The issue on gay rights, on abortion, on many of the issues in which Ruth's opinions and my opinions differ does not pertain to the substance, it doesn't pertain to whether gay people ought to have those rights — whether there ought to be a constitutional right — a right to abortion, that isn't the issue, the issue is quite simply who decides, that's all.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
My shtick is, as you may know, textualism, I believe that judges should adhere to the text of the law and not amend or revise it to accord with what they think the law ought to be.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We're just old-fashioned Catholics, playing what used to be known as 'Vatican Roulette,'.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I have no illusions that your man will nominate someone who shares my orientation, but I hope he sends us someone smart.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
You're looking at me as though I'm weird, my God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the Devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the Devil! Most of mankind has believed in the Devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the Devil.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Maybe the legislature and the president are not as stupid as you think, they assuredly picked those people because of who they are and when they get to the court they remain who they were.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The death penalty? Give me a break. It's easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the Constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, it was criminal in every state.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Sometimes people come up to me and inquire, 'Justice Scalia, when did you first become an originalist?' As though it's some weird affliction, you know, 'When did you start eating human flesh?'.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It has turned into a childish spectacle, i don't want to be there to lend dignity to it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The problem is that everything that is collectively bargained with the government is within the political sphere almost by definition.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We really should start calling the law SCOTUScare.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's been the law for 40 years, disaster has not occurred, and why, when something is so well established throughout the United States, should this court come in and change it?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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