"The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt."
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"[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored."
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"You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out."
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"Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges."
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"[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done."
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"Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?"
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"The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law."
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