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• It wouldn't matter if every single President since Washington had been a Bible-toting, evangelical Christian. They weren't, of course, but even if they had been, it still would not change the secular foundation of our republic. Christians like to quote various Presidents or Supreme Court Justices who (quite incorrectly) have referred to our "Christian nation." But what do those quotes prove? I could quote Richard Nixon, but would that prove that ours was intended to be a nation of crooks?

  Judith Hayes

  Christian, Justice, Atheism

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• That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Law, Justice, Political

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• As a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, American democracy is being undermined by the ability of the Koch brothers and other billionaire families. These wealthy contributors can literally buy politicians and elections by spending hundreds of millions of dollars in support of the candidates of their choice. We need to overturn Citizens United and move toward public funding of elections so that all candidates can run for office without being beholden to the wealthy and powerful.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Brother, Powerful

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• The Supreme Court raises the question, what kind of country will we be? The Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful, wealthy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Powerful, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn't have to be a member of congress. He or she can be anyone. I'm not sure if James Madison really intended that, or if the wording was accidentally imprecise, but the Constitution, as a recall, simply says that the House shall chuse a speaker.

  Gene Weingarten

  House, Constitution, Not Sure

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Donald Trump actually won a lot of people. We've got to give the president-elect his due. He was a tractor beam for the disappointed. He said to the people who were disappointed with the president on Obamacare, "Come to me." He said to the people who were disappointed with trade, "Come to me." He said to the people who were disappointed with the Supreme Court, "Come to me." And he did run a campaign of bringing in the disappointed. And to the people who may be disappointed with their own lives and where they are. And they have a person to speak for them.

  Hugh Hewitt

  Running, Giving, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Here's a president who gets 47 or 48 percent of the vote and takes 100 percent of the power, as if he had a mandate. He snuck into the presidency with the aid of political cronies, his father's having appointed members of the Supreme Court, his brother governor of Florida. And then he takes total control. And this is a president who seems to react to everything with force. Now we've had two wars. We've killed a lot of people. For anybody who is interested in not being a warlike nation anymore, and becoming a nation respected in the world, it becomes important to defeat Bush.

  Howard Zinn

  Brother, War, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People already think the court is there to become the final word on controversial political questions. So everybody looks to the Supreme Court as the final word on abortion or immigration or what have you. It's not what it's for. It's never intended to be such. It's just another institution that has been corrupted and it's facing total corruption depending on the outcome of this election.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, People, Abortion

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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.

  Lynne Stewart

  Fighting, Justice, Today

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I remember being in high school in the '90s, and even then somehow hearing about the the Canadian Supreme Court's Butler decision which was meant to keep "obscene" material from entering Canada. The stuff being stopped at the border was almost all lesbian.

  Melissa Gira Grant

  School, Decision, Remember

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are so many really good role models out there, we just have to make sure that we don't glorify just one type. We have the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, who is ready to be a force in kids' lives. I could name hundreds of people like her.

  Michelle Obama

  People, Role Models, Justice

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• 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.

  Martha Minow

  Country, Perspective, Controversial

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• It's why we oppose Citizens United from that right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I also said the Tea Party "acted like terrorists" and called a donut shop manager in Milwaukee who wanted lower taxes a "smartass." And I said the number one issue is a three-letter word, J-O-B-S." I'm proud of who I am.

  Joe Biden

  Party, Who I Am, Wings

  "Chris Wallace Interviews Joe Biden: A Retrospective". Interview with Chris Wallace, spectator.org. October 22, 2015.

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• Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has been a pioneer, and her dedicated service on the Supreme Court will never be forgotten. And the people of the country certainly owe her a great debt for the service that she has provided.

  Samuel Alito

  Country, People, Justice

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• We depend on the Supreme Court to uphold the integrity of our government.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Integrity, Government, Court

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Rights, Law, Liberty

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Responsibility, Justice, Advice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The real debate is we've had an activist court, and the American people don't want an activist court. And the real fear from those who might oppose Samuel Alito is that he'll bring the court back within a realm where the American people might want us to be with a Supreme Court; one that interprets the law, equal justice under the law, but not advancing without us advancing, the legislative body advancing, ahead of him.

  Tom Coburn

  Real, Law, People

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• We've gone down a road to which we don't have the answers for. That's why we have the schizophrenic decisions coming out of the Supreme Court that don't balance logically with one versus another decision.

  Tom Coburn

  Decision, Balance, Gone

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• I'm distressed to hear you think that judges or the Supreme Court is an organ of a party. That, to me, is just - I know you feel that way. And that distresses me.

  Neil Gorsuch

  Party, Thinking, Judging

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We give Supreme Court justices this freedom because we expect them to remain above the pull of politics, to avoid the effects of public excitement and allow a broader view, not tied to the whims of the majority at a certain moment in history.

  Herb Kohl

  Views, Giving, Justice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Men, People, Perception

  "Justice Ginsburg's distant dream of an all-female supreme court" by Jill Filipovic, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2012.

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• Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Real, Black, President

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• I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  People, Justice, Inspire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Political, Politics

  Harry S. Truman (1966). “Good old Harry: the wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman”

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