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John Paul Stevens / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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Well, in my job, I avoid political commentary.
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Commentary
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Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.
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Majority
Shields
Tyranny
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While money is used to finance speech, money is not speech.
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Finance
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It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.
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Jobs
Law
Written
Apply
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To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?
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Judgment
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I play duplicate bridge and I play golf and I go swimming once in a while.
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Duplicate
Swimming
Bridge
Play Golf
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The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
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Government
Atheism
Neutrality
Pursue
Complete
Toward
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Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially.
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Including
Legislators
Officials
Public Officials
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All I can say is I did the best I could, and I didn't do well enough on many occasions.
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Occasions
Well Enough
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They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.
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Crusade
Foot
Soldiers
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A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.
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Believe
Democracy
Law
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The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.
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Levels
Mailboxes
Would Be
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I think maybe the people in elected positions are more interested in preserving their jobs than in doing the best job possible.
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Best People Doing
Elected
Positions
Preserving
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But I wound like people to think I was an honest judge and a good judge. And I always tried the reach the best result in every case.
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Wound
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If you're interested in the job and in the kind of work that's done, you have to have an interest in who's going to fill your shoes.
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Shoes
Fill
Work Your Done
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There was a fear among the original framers that the federal government would be so strong that they might destroy the state militias.
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Federal Government
Framers
Among
Original
Destroy
Federal
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I always prided myself on my ability to choose good clerks, and one of the key elements was whether I thought I would like the person.
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Elements
Good Myself Always
Choose
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The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.
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Censorship
Expression
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Colonial history contains many examples of firearm regulations in urban areas that imposed obstacles to their use for protection of the home.
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Obstacles
Protection
Urban
Urban Areas
Area
Colonial
Contains
Examples
Imposed
Regulations
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When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof the pig is obscene.
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Exercise
Justice
Pigs
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The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
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Civilized
Civilized Society
Decency
Executing
Inconsistent
Offenders
Practice
Standards
Evolving
Relic
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Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.
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Vacation
Home
Hunting
Retirement
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I am not a fan of President Trump, I should say. I wouldn't try to comment on every particular issue in which we disagree, but there are plenty of them.
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Comment
Disagree
Particular
Plenty
Trump
Fan
Issue
President Trump
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Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.
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Approval
Execution
Retribution
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I have been opposed to ceremonies at the White House. It gives the impression that the court is subordinate to the executive, which I think is quite wrong.
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Impression
White House
Ceremonies
Executive
Subordinate
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The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.
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Atheism
Religious
Squares
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To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
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Country
Needs
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To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
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Persecuted
Prove
Alien
He Or She
Likely
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I announced my dissent in the Citizens United orally, and I stumbled in my announcement. I had a little difficulty expressing myself. And that was out of character.
John Paul Stevens / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Character
Citizens
Difficulty
Dissent
Announced
Expressing
Stumbled
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When I signed on to letting the death penalty back in, I thought the procedural protections against executing an innocent person were stronger than they turned out to be.
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Death Penalty
Executing
Innocent
Letting
Penalty
Procedural
Signed
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It almost seems I was writing two separate books, the first one about the time before I went on the court and the second one about the many, many terms I was on the court.
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First One
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Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views.
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Answers
School
Views
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Whenever we remove a brick from the wall that was designed to separate religion and government, we increase the risk of religious strife and weaken the foundation of our democracy.
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Government
Religious
Wall
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For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation.
John Paul Stevens / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Adoption
Authority
Gun
Gun Control
Legislation
Second Amendment
Understood
Control
Gun Control Gun Control
Amendment
Either
Enact
Federal
Limit
Placing
Second
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After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.
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Giving
Judging
Yankees
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Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned
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Nfl
Team
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Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned.
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Common Interests
Licensing
Nfl
Promoting
Aligned
Brand
Entities
Interests
Separate
Teams
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I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.
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Country
Thinking
Years
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District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution, is unquestionably the most clearly incorrect decision that the Supreme Court announced during my tenure on the bench.
John Paul Stevens / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Columbia
Court
Decision
Supreme
Supreme Court
Tenure
Announced
Bench
Clearly
District
Incorrect
Possess
Recognized
Unquestionably
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I had been born a Republican. My dad was an active Republican, but he was not active in politics and I really never was either. It's true that I did belong to that party, but it really had very little impact on my public work or my private views.
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Views
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Sam Alito replacing Justice O'Connor was a very significant change. He is much more conservative. And, as for John Roberts, he is much more in the direction of protecting the rights of very rich people to donate money to campaigns than Bill Rehnquist ever was.
John Paul Stevens / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Campaigns
Donate
Rich People
Significant
John Roberts
Protecting
Replacing
Sam
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During my years as a practicing lawyer, it just was part of your study of what Congress was trying to say in their statutes. I never really considered judges or scholars as either those who used legislative history or those who were opposed to it until after I got on the court.
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Court
Study
Considered
Judges
Legislative
Opposed
Practicing
Scholars
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One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.
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Judging
Law
Years
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Of course, when I joined the Navy and when I took up the correspondence course in cryptography, I had to sign an oath that I would never reveal what sort of work I was involved in. It was only some years after the war that Congress passed a statute relieving me of that obligation.
John Paul Stevens / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Congress
Correspondence
Cryptography
Involved
Navy
Oath
Obligation
Joined
Passed
Relieving
Reveal
Sign
Took
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Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.
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Individual
Majority
Speak
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"Respecting" means concerning or with reference to. But it also means with respect~ that is "reverence," "good-will," "regard" to. Taking into account this richer meaning, the Establishment Clause, in banning laws that concern religion, especially prohibits those that pay homage to religion.
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Atheism
Law
Mean
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When I joined the Supreme Court in 1975, both state and federal judges accepted the Court's unanimous decision in United States v. Miller as having established that the Second Amendment's protection of the right to bear arms was possessed only by members of the militia and applied only to weapons used by the militia.
John Paul Stevens / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Accepted
Arms
Possessed
Protection
Supreme
Supreme Court
Weapons
Amendment
Applied
Established
Bear
Joined
Judges
Miller
Unanimous
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Every individual who participated in the redistricting process knew that incumbency protection was a critical factor in producing the bizarre lines. ... Many of the oddest twists and turns of the Texas districts would never have been created if the Legislature had not been so intent on protecting party and incumbents.
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Party
Political
Texas
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In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of the First Amendment. Whatever the better policy may be, a full and frank discussion of the costs and benefits of the attempt to prohibit the use of marijuana is far wiser than suppression of speech because it is unpopular.
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Expression
Issues
Marijuana
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