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• You've got Bush and Gore headed to the Supreme Court. You've got George W. Bush's intelligence will be pitted against Al Gore's honesty. This is more like a case for small claims court.

  Jay Leno

  Honesty, Als, Claims

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• I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that's your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson.

  Clarence Thomas

  Stupid, Smart, Years

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• The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Passion, Government, Hatred

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• The fallout from the Supreme Court halfway killing Obamacare would likely be more serious than conservatives believe...Even their own base, which has been told relentlessly that Obamacare represents the end of the America they love, might start to demand a fix once it becomes clear just what they’re missing - and what all those blue states with their own exchanges are getting.

  Kevin Drum

  Believe, Blue, Obamacare

  "Killing Obamacare Halfway Is Worse For Republicans Than They Think" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. February 27, 2015.

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• When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day

  Dick Gephardt

  Order, President, Overcoming

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• We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Politics, Constitution, Court

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

  Donna Leon

  Justice, Ruth, Nine

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• We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5 - 4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Retirement, Fighting, Equal Pay

  Lilly Ledbetter's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I am bound by the laws of the United States and all 50 states...I am not bound by any case or any court to which I myself am not a party...I don't think the Congress of the United States is subservient to the courts...They can ignore a Supreme Court ruling if they so choose.

  Pat Robertson

  Party, Thinking, Law

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• If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Diversity, United States, Court

  "Is affirmative action necessary?", www.cnn.com. December 5, 2002.

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• I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called.

  Howard Dean

  Thinking, Play, Lifetime

  "Where do Democrats stand?". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 6, 2005.

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• The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is 'okay' to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is.

  Howard Dean

  Thinking, Government, Wings

  Speech to College Democrats, July 29, 2005.

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• I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Firsts, Criminals, Alabama

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• The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It is the foundation of society. It is essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness. It's a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights and older than our political parties. One of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause. A right of intimacy to the degree of being sacred. And a liberty right equally available to a person in a homosexual relationship as to heterosexual persons.

  Ted Olson

  Party, Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights

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• John Boehner has to start taking a macro step towards the American people, away from the more radical elements of his party. You know, it's almost a form of anarchy. We have a law that was passed by Congress. We have a law that the Supreme Court said was legal. It's been implemented. And I'm sorry they don't like it. There's been a lot of laws in the past the Democrats didn't like. But that's what this country is about. You pass laws. And if they are deemed legal, you respect them and you move forward.

  Howard Bragman

  Country, Sorry, Party

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• I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.

  Samuel Alito

  Government, Abortion, Doe

  Samuel Alito's letter (1985), as quoted in "Alito denied that Constitution protected abortion" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2005.

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• Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in many quarters, and there has never been any amendment or even a Supreme Court decision saying it's improper. - Samual Francis, Secession May Be Legal But Not Expedient, Conservative Chronicles
  If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Taken, Errors

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• For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

  Abe Fortas

  Opportunity, Discovery, Self

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• There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

  David Frum

  America, People, Wonderful

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• The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

  Todd Akin

  Government, Roles, Branches

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• Twenty-six years ago the highest court in this land did an incredible thing. They issued a Supreme Court decision that really boils down to one simple and profoundly evil idea: They said that our unborn children have no rights that the rest of us are bound to respect. And when they made that decision they unleashed on America an unbelievable event that has undermined who we are and what we believe.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Believe, Simple

  "Bauer officially jumps into 2000 race". www.cnn.com. April 21, 1999.

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• I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

  Mitch McConnell

  Issues, Political, Speech

  Koch Brothers Donor Summit speech, ladylibertine.net. June 15, 2014.

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• The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

  David Boies

  Past, Rights, Decision

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• So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

  Eric Alterman

  Mistake, Eggs, Decision

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• In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

  Larry Flynt

  Community, Individual, Obscenity

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