"JUSTICE SCALIA, with whom CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS and JUSTICE THOMAS join, dissenting.
The Court concludes that the Attorney General lacked authority to declare assisted suicide illicit under the Con- trolled Substances Act (CSA), because the CSA is con- cerned only with illicit drug dealing and trafficking, ante, at 23 (emphasis added). This question-begging conclusion is obscured by a flurry of arguments that dis- tort the statute and disregard settled principles of our interpretive jurisprudence. Contrary to the Courts analysis, this case involves not one but three independently sufficient grounds for revers- ing the Ninth Circuits judgment... "