Words Have Meaning. And Their Meaning Doesn't

Under All The Usual Rules Of Interpretation, In Short, The Government Should Lose This Case. But Normal Rules Of Interpretation Seem Always To Yield To The Overriding Principle Of The Present Court: The Affordable Care Act Must Be Saved.

Certainly The Constitution Does Not Require Discrimination On The Basis Of Sex. The Only Issue Is Whether It Prohibits It. It Doesn't.

With Respect To Public Acknowledgment Of Religious Belief, It Is Entirely Clear From Our Nation's Historical Practices That The Establishment Clause Permits This Disregard Of Polytheists And Believers In Unconcerned Deities, Just As It Permits The Disregard Of Devout Atheists.

Individuals Who Have Been Wronged By Unlawful Racial Discrimination Should Be Made Whole; But Under Our Constitution There Can Be No Such Thing As Either A Creditor Or A Debtor Race. That Concept Is Alien To The Constitution's Focus Upon The Individual. ...to Pursue The Concept Of Racial Entitlement - Even For The Most Admirable And Benign Of Purposes - Is To Reinforce And Preserve For Future Mischief The Way Of Thinking That Produced Race Slavery, Race Privilege And Race Hatred. In The Eyes Of Government, We Are Just One Race Here. It Is American.

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.