("Scalia Dissents")
Mar. 28th, 2006 10:54 pmAmazon started recommending obscure tools to me ever since I'd looked up this book on their site.
- Under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race.
- We indeed live in a vulgar age. But surely "our social conventions" have not coarsened to the point that anyone who does not stand on his chair and shout obscenities can reasonably be deemed to have assented to everything said in his presence.
- Church and state would not be such as difficult subject if religion were, as the Court apparently thinks it to be, some purely personal avocation that can be indulged entirely in secret, like pornography, in the privacy of one's room. {A vulgar mind immediately thinks of exhibitionism, naturally.}
- ... bemoaned the strange Establishment Clause geometry of crooked lines and wavering shapes its intermittent use has produced.
- The States... are entitled to know before they act the standard to which they will be held, rather than be compelled to guess about the outcome of Supreme Court peek-a-boo.
- (Then) the First Amendment is a dead letter.
- The narrowing tailoring must refer not to the standards of Versace, but to those of Omar the tentmaker. {OMG, it googled}
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