I Even Accept For The Sake Of

Justice White's Conclusion Is Perhaps Correct, If One Assumes That The Task Of A Court Of Law Is To Plumb The Intent Of The Particular Congress That Enacted A Particular Provision. That Methodology Is Not Mine Nor, I Think, The One That Courts Have Traditionally Followed. It Is Our Task, As I See It, Not To Enter The Minds Of The Members Of Congress - Who Need Have Nothing In Mind In Order For Their Votes To Be Both Lawful And Effective - But Rather To Give Fair And Reasonable Meaning To The Text Of The United States Code, Adopted By Various Congresses At Various Times.

It's A Long, Uphill Fight To Get Back To Original Orthodoxy. We Have Two 'originalists' On The Supreme Court. That's Something.

You Could Have 50 Different States Having 50 Different Regulations... Until They Were All Litigated Out.

Many Americans Do Not Want Persons Who Openly Engage In Homosexual Conduct As Partners In Their Business, As Scoutmasters For Their Children, As Teachers In Their Children's Schools, Or As Boarders In Their Home. They View This As Protecting Themselves And Their Families From A Lifestyle That They Believe To Be Immoral And Destructive.

The Attitude Of People Associating Guns With Nothing But Crime, That Is What Has To Be Changed. I Grew Up At A Time When People Were Not Afraid Of People With Firearms.