Antonin Scalia Quotes
This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
Scalia, Antonin. Dissenting opinion. Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654, Supreme Court of the United States, 29 June 1988.
See {591849} for the entire title.
General Prim, a Progressive Catalan, commented after the end of Isabel II’s reign that finding a king to rule constitutionally would be near impossible.
At the time McCarthy made this statement he was suffering from an advanced state of alcoholism. He was censured. See {619921}.
of allegiance to the U.S. There were a number of “Copperheads” –Southern sympathizers—in the North, especially those areas that were near borders with Southern States. Some patriots proposed requiring everyone to take an oath—a solution that tends often to be suggested in times of war and strife, but really doesn’t do any good. The real traitors just falsely take the other; others who refuse, do so on principle and are rarely dangerous. Few public men had had the courage to call the process of requiring loyalty oaths absurd as Sherman did in the Civil War. In almost every era of war—cold or hot—there are some people who call for requiring more loyalty oaths and relatively few like Sherman who will publicly admit its futility.
Antonin Gregory Scalia was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the Court's conservative wing. For catalyzing an originalist and textualist movement in American law, he has been described as one of the most influential jurists of the twentieth century, and one of the most important justices in the Supreme Court's history. Scalia was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018 by President Donald Trump, and the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University was named in his honor.
