Occupation: Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States Birth: March 11, 1936 Death: February 13, 2016
We should start calling this law SCOTUScare ... [T]his Court's two decisions on the Act will surely be remembered through the years ... And the cases….
Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's l….
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all..
To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian ….
One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned..
Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abrid….
It is a Constitution that morphs while you look at it like Plasticman.... That is contrary to our whole tradition, to in God we trust on the coins, t….
If it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag. But I am not king..
Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the Federal Government,'….
This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated..
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis….
[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, t….
[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored..
Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully cra….
When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?.
On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on our fellow citizens only t….
The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims ….
Nowhere else in the Constitution does a "right" attributed to "the people" refer to anything other than an individual right. What is more, in all six….
Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It ca….
If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We ….
Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path, we effectively replace th….