A Law Can Be Both Economic Folly

The Principal Purpose Of Stare Decisis Is To Protect Reliance Interest And Further Stability In The Law.

As Long As Judges Tinker With The Constitution To 'do What The People Want,' Instead Of What The Document Actually Commands, Politicians Who Pick And Confirm New Federal Judges Will Naturally Want Only Those Who Agree With Them Politically.

If You're Going To Be A Good And Faithful Judge, You Have To Resign Yourself To The Fact That You're Not Always Going To Like The Conclusions You Reach. If You Like Them All The Time, You're Probably Doing Something Wrong.

More Importantly, The Court Forgets That Ours Is A Government Of Laws And Not Of Men. That Means We Are Governed By The Terms Of Our Laws, Not By The Unenacted Will Of Our Lawmakers. 'if Congress Enacted Into Law Something Different From What It Intended, Then It Should Amend The Statute To Conform To Its Intent.' In The Meantime, This Court 'has No Roving License ... To Disregard Clear Language Simply On The View That ... Congress 'must Have Intended' Something Broader.

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.