Top 1200 Supreme Court Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Our Supreme Court has been very clear that the government can't just simply say something and make it so.

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.

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

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.

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

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 solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position.

Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations.

Installing an activist liberal majority on the Supreme Court will put religious liberties at risk for generations to come.

The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.

Brown v. Board of Education was arguably the most important decision of the Supreme Court in the 20th century.

We have no prejudiced stand, nor are we aggressive on the Sabarimala issue. The government is duty-bound to implement the Supreme Court order.

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.

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

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.

The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain.

The Supreme Court of the United States has validated the Nazi method of execution in concentration camps, starving them to death.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Harriet Miers isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on The West Wing , let alone to be a real one.

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

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

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

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

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

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

It's our last chance [November 8, 2016]. And that includes Supreme Court justices and Second Amendment. Remember that.

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

The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.

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.

I don't want to get into predicting how Judge Gorsuch would vote on the Supreme Court as a Justice Gorsuch. But I will say that those of us who've seen him in court as a judge, those of us who have worked with him as I have on a appellate rules committee, understand that this is a man who brings independence and integrity to the job.

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.

Any Supreme Court confirmation needs to be a thoughtful process, with full respect for the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.

PM Modi's irresponsible behaviour and an overzealous Supreme Court will damage the Indian federal structure.

You can't have one, two, three more picks on the Supreme Court go against our Second Amendment rights.

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

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.

I feel that at this point in our country's history, it is important that we not reverse marriage equality, that we not reverse Roe v. Wade, that we stand up against Citizens United, we stand up for the rights of people in the workplace, that we stand up and basically say: The Supreme Court should represent all of us. That's how I see the court, and the kind of people that I would be looking to nominate to the court would be in the great tradition of standing up to the powerful, standing up on behalf of our rights as Americans.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

Let's put it in perspective at the United States Supreme Court, which hears maybe 60 cases a year, most of the cases are resolved without much dispute. The 10 or 15 that are controversial we all know about, and we hear about. The federal courts hear just a tiny sliver of the cases that go to court in this country. Most of the cases are in the state courts. And most legal issues never go to court. So, the legal system is actually not in jeopardy. At the same time, access to law is in jeopardy.

The Supreme Court has increasingly come down on the side of big corporations instead of workers and middle-class families.

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.

Short of the passage of a Constitutional Amendment protecting marriage as between one man and one woman, the U.S. Supreme Court has the final say.

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

Whether D.C. residents will be full-fledged citizens seems to be a case worthy of 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.

I have strong differences with Mr. Trump on a woman's right to choose and what kind of justices belong on 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.

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

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.

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.

I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.

It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something.

The country is yearning for a change. I'd rather take my chances on somebody new, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court.

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the public is entitled to know what the legal views of a Supreme Court candidate are.

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

If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.

As the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case has shown us, separate is not always equal.

I'm very upset that the Supreme Court ruled that citizens don't have standing to challenge the faith based initiatives on constitutional grounds.