Antonin Scalia Quotes About Constitution

• No hay ninguna base en el texto, la tradición, o incluso en la práctica contemporánea (si eso fuera suficiente), para encontrar en la Constitución un derecho a exigir la consideración judicial de las pruebas de inocencia recién descubiertas presentadas después de la condena. Lo que me preocupa es que, al hacernos la vida más fácil a nosotros mismos, no parezcamos hacérsela más difícil a los tribunales federales inferiores, imponiéndoles la carga de analizar periódicamente las reclamaciones por pruebas de inocencia recientemente descubiertas en casos de pena capital (en cuyo caso dichas reclamaciones federales, puede predecirse con seguridad, se convertirán en rutinarias e incluso repetitivas).

  Antonin Scalia

  Práctica, Justicia, Demanda

• Mientras los jueces jueguen con la Constitución para "hacer lo que el pueblo quiere", en lugar de lo que el documento realmente ordena, los políticos que eligen y confirman a los nuevos jueces federales naturalmente querrán sólo a aquellos que estén políticamente de acuerdo con ellos.

  Antonin Scalia

  Ley, Largo, Gente

  "'Supéralo': Las citas más memorables del juez Scalia", por Bill Mears, www.foxnews.com. 15 de febrero de 2016.

• Es difícil mantener la ilusión de que estamos interpretando una Constitución, en lugar de inventarla.

  Antonin Scalia

  Fundición, Constitución, Ilusión

  Antonin Scalia (2016). "El Tribunal de Scalia: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents", p.58, Regnery Publishing.

• Ese es el argumento de la flexibilidad y es más o menos así: La Constitución tiene más de 200 años y las sociedades cambian. Tiene que cambiar con la sociedad, como un organismo vivo, o se volverá quebradiza y se romperá. Pero hay que ser idiota para creer eso. La Constitución no es un organismo vivo; es un documento legal. Dice algo y no dice otras cosas.

  Antonin Scalia

  Creer, Años, Fundir

  "Scalia Raps 'Living Constitution'". www.cbsnews.com. 14 de febrero de 2006.

• Día a día, caso a caso, el Tribunal Supremo se ocupa de diseñar una Constitución para un país que no reconozco.

  Antonin Scalia

  País, Diseño, Fusión

• Ciertamente, la Constitución no exige la discriminación por razón de sexo. La única cuestión es si la prohíbe. Y no la prohíbe.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sexo, Cuestiones, Doe

  "Scalia: La Constitución no protege a las mujeres contra la discriminación". Entrevista con un abogado de California, voices.washingtonpost.com. 4 de enero de 2011.

• ¿La pena de muerte? Dame un respiro. Es fácil. ¿El aborto? Absolutamente fácil. Nadie pensó nunca que la Constitución impidiera las restricciones al aborto. ¿Sodomía homosexual? Vamos. Durante 200 años, fue criminal en todos los estados.

  Antonin Scalia

  Years, Giving, Abortion

  "Antonin Scalia, 1936-2016: conservative bulwark who resisted ages of change" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2016.

• Las personas que se han visto perjudicadas por la discriminación racial ilegal deben ser reparadas, pero según nuestra Constitución no puede existir una raza acreedora o deudora. Ese concepto es ajeno al enfoque de la Constitución sobre el individuo. ...Perseguir el concepto de derecho racial -incluso para el más admirable y benigno de los propósitos- es reforzar y preservar para futuros males la forma de pensar que produjo la esclavitud racial, el privilegio racial y el odio racial. A los ojos del gobierno, aquí sólo somos una raza. Es la estadounidense.

  Antonin Scalia

  Ojo, Pensamiento, Raza

  Adarand Constructors, Inc. contra Peña, 515 U.S. 200, 239, 1995.

• If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,' I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.

  Antonin Scalia

  Rights, Fortune Cookie, Gay Marriage

  "This Scalia Zinger Is the Funniest Footnote to Come Out of the Supreme Court This Term" by Shane Ferro, www.businessinsider.com. June 26, 2015.

• La decisión del Tribunal refleja la filosofía de que los jueces deben soportar las distorsiones interpretativas que sean necesarias para corregir un supuesto fallo en la maquinaria legal. Esa filosofía ignora la decisión del pueblo estadounidense de otorgar al Congreso "todos los poderes legislativos" enumerados en la Constitución. Hicieron al Congreso, y no a este Tribunal, responsable tanto de hacer leyes como de enmendarlas.

  Antonin Scalia

  Filosofía, Orden, Derecho

• We do Him [God] honor in our pledge of allegiance, in all our public ceremonies. There's nothing wrong with that. It is in the best of American traditions, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. I think we have to fight that tendency of the secularists to impose it on all of us through the Constitution.

  Antonin Scalia

  Fighting, Thinking, Honor

• On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it's a good idea.

  Antonin Scalia

  Ideas, Scary, Faithful

• Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited by the Constitution?

  Antonin Scalia

  Blow, Faces, Bombs

  "Scalia accepts infliction of pain to get key information". articles.latimes.com. February 13, 2008.

• [The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.

  Antonin Scalia

  Rights, Government, Rooms

  "Supreme Court Justice Bans Media From Free Speech Event". www.govtech.com. March 19, 2003.

• You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good.' Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the constitution? It would be absurd to say you couldn't do that. And once you acknowledge that, we're into a different game.

  Antonin Scalia

  Blow, Self, Games

• Si vamos a elegir a personas que saquen de su propia conciencia y experiencia una "nueva" Constitución, no deberíamos buscar principalmente a buenos abogados. Deberíamos buscar personas que estén de acuerdo con nosotros. Cuando estamos en ese modo, te das cuenta de que hemos hecho inútil la Constitución.

  Antonin Scalia

  People, Looks, Useless

  "Scalia Slams 'Living Constitution' Theory", www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2005.

• It is a Constitution that morphs while you look at it like Plasticman.... That is contrary to our whole tradition, to in God we trust on the coins, to Thanksgiving proclamations, to (Congressional) chaplains, to tax exemption for places of worship, which has always existed in America.

  Antonin Scalia

  America, Scary, Looks

• If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

  Antonin Scalia

  Thinking, Ideas, Abortion

  "Scalia Slams 'Living Constitution' Theory". www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2005.

• Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the extremes of military exigency, inter arma silent leges. Whatever the general merits of the view that war silences law or modulates its voice, that view has no place in the interpretation and application of a Constitution designed precisely to confront war and, in a manner that accords with democratic principles, to accommodate it.

  Antonin Scalia

  Militar, Guerra, Pensamiento

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.131, Regnery Publishing

• The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?

  Antonin Scalia

  Jobs, Practice, Times Of Crisis

• There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

  Antonin Scalia

  Freedom, Order, Political

  "Opinion By Scalia Opposes Broad View Of Police Power" by Stuart Taylor Jr., www.nytimes.com. March 4, 1987.

• [International law] doesn't show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn't show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what's fundamentally important to somebody else today.

  Antonin Scalia

  Law, Important, Today

• Nowhere else in the Constitution does a "right" attributed to "the people" refer to anything other than an individual right. What is more, in all six other provisions of the Constitution that mention "the people," the term unambiguously refers to all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset... The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms... The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it "shall not be infringed."

  Antonin Scalia

  Derecho, Personas, Política

  "District of Columbia v. Heller". United States Supreme Court, case 07-290, caselaw.findlaw.com. June 26, 2008.

• The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.

  Antonin Scalia

  Determination, Judging, Guilt

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