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Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.
Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.
I have never endorsed Roy Moore. Just the fact that he was forced off the state supreme court is enough for me.
The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position.
On June 19, 1981, a vigorously healthy Justice Potter Stewart resigned from the Supreme Court at the age of 66.
Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
Having people that really reflect the spectrum of American experiences is important to have on the Supreme Court.
My gut tells me that the Supreme Court will rule the subsidies to be illegal, and therefore, Obamacare will fail.
We have never had a president of the United States or a nominee of a major party who was a Supreme Court law clerk.
The fairest and most democratic process in terms of Supreme Court nominees is let the American people have a voice.
I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States.
Over time, I think, and with further appointments to the Supreme Court, I think that the Roe v. Wade opinion will fall.
Citizens United fought to defend our right to free speech - and won a great victory in the United States Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court of the United States is too important to our democracy for it to be understaffed for partisan reasons.
I want to sing the praises of the U.S. Supreme Court police because they're always fantastic. They always do a good job.
The Supreme Court has been very clear: when it comes to religious discrimination, you can take intent into consideration.
I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.
Installing an activist liberal majority on the Supreme Court will put religious liberties at risk for generations to come.
I am very pleased with President Trump's selection of Judge Neil Gorsuch as his first appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court has increasingly come down on the side of big corporations instead of workers and middle-class families.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the public is entitled to know what the legal views of a Supreme Court candidate are.
I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
I have strong differences with Mr. Trump on a woman's right to choose and what kind of justices belong on the Supreme Court.
I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.
Stability in law - particularly constitutional law - is critically important; the Supreme Court would do well to remember that.
Donald Trump has shouted 'hoax' hundreds of times, about everything from climate change to Supreme Court rulings to impeachment.
The country is yearning for a change. I'd rather take my chances on somebody new, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court.
What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.
Justice Kennedy devoted his career to securing liberty. I am deeply honored to be nominated to fill his seat on the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
What many people, I think, don't really understand is how much their rights really turn on the interpretation of the Supreme Court.
I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
The nice thing about the 'House of Cards' is they did 70 takes, so it was a little different. You only get one at the Supreme Court.
The Senate has a constitutional responsibility to fill vacancies on the Supreme Court, and I take that responsibility very seriously.
Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
It is absurd to suggest a president whose party controls the Senate should jointly decline to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat - ever.
Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.
If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.
Unlike tennis matches, Supreme Court decisions are tiebreaker-free, meaning the lower-court ruling stands without any high-court guidance.
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.
We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.
I actually had the opportunity to stand at the lectern in the Supreme Court and face the justices, which was really a powerful thing for me.
The Supreme Court overrules, distinguishes, and upholds prior precedents. Sometimes it ignores them. But it does not - cannot - 'defy' them.