47 Quotes About Supreme-court
- Author Phillip Hoose
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America's attention had turned to race relations during that winter of 1954-55, largely driven by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the nation's public schools would eventually have to be racially integrated. Crispus Attucks students were studying black history without being fully aware that their basketball team was making it.
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- Author Horace Cooper
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... there are clear parallels between the Supreme Court's language describing black slaves in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford slavery case, and the court's language describing unborn babies in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992).
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- Author Supreme Court
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A gilded cage is still a cage
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- Author Sheikh Gulzar
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I heard that he filled himself by hearing about the incident of a rape above. Not a temple of justice but a house of execution.
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- Author Samuel Alito
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Exclusion [of evidence] exacts a heavy toll on both the judicial system and society at large. It almost always requires courts to ignore reliable, trustworthy evidence bearing on guilt or innocence. And its bottom-line effect, in many cases, is to suppress the truth and set the criminal loose in the community without punishment. [internal citations omitted]
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- Author Mark R. Levin
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Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will consult foreign law and foreign-court rulings for guidance in certain circumstances. Of course, policymakers are free to consult whatever they want, but not justices. They're limited to the Constitution and the law.
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- Author Sonia Sotomayor
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I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
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- Author Antonin Scalia
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We had to do something [in Bush v. Gore], because countries were laughing at us. France was laughing at us.
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- Author Josh Stern
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Ever feel like dialing 911 is just simply not enough, and you really need to speak to someone on the Supreme Court...?
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