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1936–2016 United States
Antonin Gregory Scalia (March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who served for 29 years, from 1986 until his death. He was appointed to the Court by U.S.
United States Judges Lawyers Also known as: Antonin Gregory Scalia, Scalia
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The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity.
Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.
For the nonbeliever, on the other hand, to deprive a man of his life is to end his existence.
I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement.
The Court's opinion serves up a freedom-destroying cocktail consisting of two parts patent falsity.
'The operation was a success, but the patient died.' What such a procedure is to medicine, the Court's opinion in this case is to law.
I think too many promising young minds are wasted on it.
I respectfully, and indeed diffidently, dissent.
I am left to defend the 'dead' Constitution.
Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; "for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost" is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith.
A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does not deserve to be called a democracy.
People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.
Words do have a limited range of meaning, and no interpretation that goes beyond that range is permissible.
Speech at Princeton University (1995)
Dispensing with confrontation because testimony is obviously reliable is akin to dispensing with jury trial because a defendant is obviously guilty.
Evidently, the governing standard is to be what might be called the unfettered wisdom of a majority of this Court, revealed to an obedient people on a case-by-case basis.
Bork has essentially given up. I'm not ready to throw in the towel.
If you care passionately about something has become the only test to determine if something is constitutional. How passionately do you care?
I don't think you can leap from that to the conclusion that the only war dead that that cross honors are the Christian war dead. I think that's an outrageous conclusion.
How frightening it must be to have your own independent counsel and staff appointed, with nothing else to do but to investigate you until investigation is no longer worthwhile.
On the independent counsel law: Morrison v. Olson (1988)
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