Top 1200 Supreme Court Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties.

Supreme Court had said feds should stay out of abortion.

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.

I, for one, want to see Mr. Cruz as a Supreme Court appointee.

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

The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.

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

The most contentious Supreme Court battles are when a Republican nominates someone to replace a liberal justice.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Members of the Supreme Court have lifetime tenures because they're not supposed to do politics.

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

The Supreme Court is very capable of acting quickly when it needs to.

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

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.

When Ruth Bader Ginsburg came in front of the Senate and was approved 96-3 to be on the Supreme Court to replace conservative justice Byron White. This is in 1993.Now, Justice Ginsburg, it was noted earlier, was a general counsel for the ACLU, certainly a liberal group. It was abundantly clear during the confirmation hearing that Ginsburg would swing the balance of the court to the left.But because President [Bill] Clinton won the election and because Justice Ginsburg clearly had the intellectual ability and integrity to serve on the court, she was confirmed.

The Supreme Court has made it nearly impossible to prove race discrimination in the criminal justice system.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

We should start calling this law SCOTUScare ... [T]his Court's two decisions on the Act will surely be remembered through the years ... And the cases will publish forever the discouraging truth that the Supreme Court of the United States favors some laws over others, and is prepared to do whatever it takes to uphold and assist its favorites.

Today, it's not the same playing field as when I first became a lawyer in 1977, where the government had been restricted by our wonderful Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren's court rulings. Now it's all going the other way, the flow is against the defendant, against anything that could really help a client. But you still fight it, you do what you can do. It's all there is.

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

The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I never want to be in the business of predicting what the U.S. Supreme Court will do.

The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

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.

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