Bigelow v. Virginia

Mr. Justice Rehnquist,

with whom Mr. Justice White joins, dissenting.

The Court’s opinion does not confront head-on the question which this case poses, but makes contact with *830it only in a series of verbal sideswipes. The result is the fashioning of a doctrine which appears designed to obtain reversal of this judgment, but at the same time to save harmless from the effects of that doctrine the many prior cases of this Court which are inconsistent with it.

I am in agreement with the Court, ante, at 817-818, that Virginia’s statute cannot properly be invalidated on grounds of overbreadth,1 given…