Top 1200 Supreme Court Justice Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

Supreme Court had said feds should stay out of abortion.

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

I look forward to the time when the membership of the Supreme Court's more reflective of the country it serves.

The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.

The (Supreme Court) ruling that anyone who's arrested -- even accidentally -- can be strip-searched was decided five to four, with the votes for the searches coming from the Court's five conservatives. You know -- the 'defending personal liberty' guys. Which is weird because I'm not a constitutional scholar, but I'm willing to bet Big Government feels it's biggest when it's inside your anus.

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

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

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

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.

We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities.

Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.

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.

For me, there can be no higher public service than serving as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

It's time for the Supreme Court to catch up to the American people and legalize gay marriage.

The Supreme Court has been very clear: when it comes to religious discrimination, you can take intent into consideration.

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.

Voting on a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court is one of the most important duties of a U.S. Senator.

It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.

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

Ask any real estate broker to name the three most important factors in buying a property, and he'll say: "Location, location, location." Now ask him to name the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, and he'll say: "Location, location, location." This tells us that we should not necessarily be paying a whole lot of attention to real estate brokers.

The US cannot be brought to the World Court for major crimes, for example the supreme international crime, invasion, or violation of the UN Charter, or violation of the Genocide Convention, these are things the US is exempt from, because they exempted themselves from being subjected to international treaties in World Court proceedings.

So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some of the creepiest forces in American and Israeli society; and d) heaping ordure on our own secular founding documents. When will the Justice Department and the Congress and the Supreme Court become aware of this huge and rank offense, which is designed to bring us ever nearer to holy war?

It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.

Having people that really reflect the spectrum of American experiences is important to have on the Supreme Court.

If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.

This is America. We don't call an election before we know who won. That, after all, is the job of the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court of the United States is too important to our democracy for it to be understaffed for partisan reasons.

I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.

Gorsuch, who is a U.S. Supreme Court nominee in the United States, said the real test of law is when a government can lose in its own courts and still respect the order. And I think Canadian need to ask is why would Canada, if it's doing everything right, why wouldn't you want to be watched? If they are contesting the fact that their own courts don't have jurisdiction over the government's human rights violations, then our next step is to go to federal court and find the federal government that can come to court and we will do that.

A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.

Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber." It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.

As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or mob a Justice of the Peace, in order to get higher wages, free credit, tools of production, favorable tariffs, or government-created jobs? Everyone knows perfectly well that such matters are not within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals or a Justice of the Peace. And if government were limited to its proper functions, everyone would soon learn that these matters are not within the jurisdiction of the law itself.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.

The Supreme Court has only granted citizenship to the children born to legal immigrants, not illegal.

There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance.

Of course I would have preferred to win in the Supreme Court as personal vindication and to vacate my sentence.

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.

On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

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.

The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.

The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.

The American people should be the one to decide which direction the Supreme Court will go.

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.

The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

I didn't quite agree with the Supreme Court ruling that forced civic clubs to take women.

O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds, the whistling of the wind, or the boom of thunder, I see in them evidence of Your unity; I feel that You are supreme power, omniscience, supreme knowledge, and supreme justice. I recognize You, O God, in the trials I am going through. May Your pleasure be my pleasure, too. May I be Your joy, the joy that a Father feels for a son. And may I think of You calmly and with determination, even when I find it hard to say I love You.

The fairest and most democratic process in terms of Supreme Court nominees is let the American people have a voice.

In America, the Supreme Court and the American people believe no one is above the law.

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.

Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United!

The Supreme Court has never ruled that the children of illegal aliens are American citizens.

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.