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Old 05-28-2009
craigimass craigimass is offline
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craigimass is on a distinguished road
“Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached”

"Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole"

"Every time the Supreme Court defines another right in the Constitution it reduces the scope of democratic debate."

“The first instinct of power is the retention of power, and under a Constitution that requires periodic elections, that is best achieved by the suppression of election-time speech,”

“You can make an exception without the sky falling,”

“Let the cancer patients suffer.”

"For one thing, it is virtually impossible to find a judge who does not have preconceptions about the law.”

"“It would be in the best interest of many children to take them away from their parents and give them to someone else. ”

Hon. Judge Scalia (all above).

Now, using a bit of thought, if it is impossible to find a judge without preconceptions about the law - where would those preconceptions have come from? You guessed it - life experience. People are not born with preconceptions about the law.
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