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I never really called people out. It was more along the lines of teasing a person. It started for me in fifth grade on the basketball court.
Any Supreme Court confirmation needs to be a thoughtful process, with full respect for the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.
As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing.
Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of doing, but it can be done.
I'm super into sneakers! I'm totally addicted. Just from playing ball all the time. I was always looking for the freshest kicks on the court.
Of course in a democracy the government and the citizens have to abide by court rulings, even if we don't like them or don't agree with them.
My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.
I always love to help the community, to interact with the kids, with the fans. It doesn't matter who I am on the court, to me it's important.
Everyone sees me as a defensive-minded guy, but both sides of the court are important. If you want to win, you have to be good on both sides.
In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.
One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.
The Court's objection to cameras may be much more a product of history and process than an unwillingness to be placed in the public spotlight.
I'm known in the trade as Litigiousness because, which means to say I'm willing to pull people into court straight away, no messing, thank you.
I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief Justice John Marshall.
But the government spying on me was not done under the authority of a court warrant. That's why my case is even more dangerous than the others.
I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
A decision by Germany's highest court that banned the display of crosses or crucifixes in classrooms has sparked widespread outrage and protest.
In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.
He is a Hindu NRI and I am a Christian, so I did a court marriage and had a Catholic wedding. The wedding was intimate with just family members.
I'm very upset that the Supreme Court ruled that citizens don't have standing to challenge the faith based initiatives on constitutional grounds.
You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really isn't Democratic or Republican; it's American.
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.
When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.
As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.
When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won.
You don't want to be down 2-0 in a series. It's always important to try and get one on the opponent's home court. It makes your job at home easier.
From the outside, Rick Rubin's house above Zuma Beach is a generic millionaire beach home. There's a rarely used tennis court and a circular drive.
When you have a coach who pinpoints the places you're at most of the time you're on the court, you sort of become a player that's stuck in this box.
The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.
I don't think your focus as a hockey player or athlete can be anywhere else but how you want to impact the team on the ice or on the field or court.
Whatever your partisan affiliation, it is worth considering the overarching constitutional principles involved in any given Supreme Court precedent.
There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.
Once I get on the court - I've been on the court with my own brother before and tried to rip his head off, so that shows the kind of competitor I am.
I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.
We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.
I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.
If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.
My dream is to be able to play basketball, and if I can go out there and do it, run up and down, and come off the court again healthy, that's goal one.
This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are going to serve for decades.
Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.
There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.
I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.
It was Thomas Jefferson who said that we should not allow the courts to have a monopoly on the interpretation of what is constitutional and what is not.