The purpose of the Federalist Society was to bring together young people who had this skepticism about what they were being taught and to let them know that there were others who shared this skepticism.

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

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?

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.

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.