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Antonin Scalia

Tuesday 3rd of March 2026

The Constitution of the United States I don't think it's a living document. I think it's dead. More precisely, I think it's enduring. It doesn't change. I think that needs to be orthodoxy. Antonin Scalia © 2016 Kwiple.com
Death penalty Few doubted the morality of the death penalty in the age that believed in the divine right of kings. Antonin Scalia © 2016 Kwiple.com
Death penalty Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached. attributred to Antonin Scalia © 2016 Kwiple.com
Death penalty The more Christian a country is the less  likely it is to regard the death penalty as immoral. … I attribute that to the fact that, for a believing Christian, death is no big deal. Antonin Scalia © 2016 Kwiple.com
Elections Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment. Antonin Scalia © 2016 Kwiple.com
Lawyers The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. y Antonin Scalia © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am an originalist. I am a textualist. I am not a nut. Andtonin Scalia © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the devil! It's in the Gospels! Andtonin Scalia © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot #SCOTUS sources say Cruz asked to sit w Scalia clerks @ funeral. They said no. Then GOP leadership said no bc he wasn't 1 of them either. Ted Cruz portrayed by @NinaTotenberg, February 24, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court A system of government that makes the people subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does not deserve to be called a democracy. Antonin Scalia © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say What's one way to get rid of a Supreme Court justice in order to get the kind of people that you want on it? Hunting. Marlene Bourne, the "ghost woman" Fox News relied on as its source for claims of election fraud during the 2020 presidential election, who believes Antonin Scalia was murdered as he was being hunted for sport during a weeklong human hunting expedition at the annual Bohemian Grove camp © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Voting rights I don't think there is anything to be gained by any senator to vote against continuation of this act. Antonin Scalia, on reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which he called “perpetuation of racial entitlement” and believed happened without dissenters for the first time in 2006 because senators had become too afraid to be called racist, and not because racial disenfranchisement had become unacceptable © 2016 Kwiple.com