Occupation: Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States Birth: March 11, 1936 Death: February 13, 2016
Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize..
[International law] doesn't show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn't show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It s….
Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular Congress that ….
For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential..
A law can be both economic folly and constitutional..
More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms of our laws, not by the….
To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to v….
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all withi….
It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in many important respects a model o….
It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one..
Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?.
A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable..
People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get..
Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield ….
Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teac….
I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and s….
I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed in my lif….
Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment..
[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Mos….
The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the f….
Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, ….