221 Quotes by Antonin Scalia

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

He leads me to my best efforts because he is so sharp. It's a challenge to write something as persuasive as his arguments. We are very fond of each other.

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

I would think the normal assumption is if one person wants that search excluded, that search is excluded.

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

I saw nothing amiss in that friendly letter and invitation, ... I surely would have thought otherwise if I had applied the standards urged in the present motion.

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.

It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.