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Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to protect the states? My court? Ha - we're feds!
— Antonin Scalia
Tags: forget, your, hands, government

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Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.
— Antonin Scalia
Tags: whatever, right, like, purpose
Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.
— Antonin Scalia
Tags: stop, together, power, war
I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing what I've tried to do for 25-26 years.
— Antonin Scalia
Tags: about, who, like, someone
You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.
— Antonin Scalia
Tags: having, different, out, you
I am something of a contrarian, I suppose. I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, 'I better reexamine my position!' I probably believe that the worst opinions in my court have been unanimous. Because there's nobody on the other side pointing out all the flaws.
— Antonin Scalia
Tags: better, believe, i-am, me
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