Supreme Court Quotes - Page 20

• The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything in American public life from religion.'

  Mickey Edwards

  Christian, Religious, Wall

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

  Benjamin Hart

  Christian, Religious, Ongoing

  Benjamin Hart (1988). “Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty”

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• The Supreme Court has said that America is a Christian nation. But to make such a statement today causes reporters, newsmen, and many politicians to go ballistic.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, America

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

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Christian, Religious, School

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• It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer.

  Ice T

  Writing, Men, Rapper

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.

  Karen DeCrow

  Abortion, Would Be, Birth Control

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• Governor Gray Davis has asked the California state Supreme Court to delay the October recall vote because he says that's not enough time to put on a fair election. Hey, let me tell you something. If we didn't need a fair election to pick the president of the United States, we don't need a fair election to pick the governor of California.

  Jay Leno

  California, President, October

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• I prefer an income tax, but the truth is I am afraid of the discussion which will follow and the criticism which will ensue if there is an other division in the Supreme Court on the subject of the income tax. Nothing has injured the prestige of the Supreme Court more than that last decision, and I think that many of the most violent advocates of the income tax will be glad of the substitution in their hearts for the same reasons. I am going to push the Constitutional amendment, which will admit an income tax without questions, but I am afraid of it without such an amendment.

  William Howard Taft

  Heart, Thinking, Decision

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• ... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.

  Bell Hooks

  Rights, Support, Black

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• In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.

  Karen DeCrow

  Color, People, Minorities

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• Osama bin Laden put out a new video. The timing of this video has some people upset, three days before we vote. It looks like he's trying to influence the election. And I'll tell you, it's not going to work. Americans know Osama bin Laden does not pick our president. The Supreme Court does.

  Bill Maher

  People, Upset, Trying

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• The Supreme Court is divided almost in half on the decisions. Talk about an international court. How would we ever agree with a lot of foreigners when we can't even agree among our own judges?

  Will Rogers

  Judging, Decision, Half

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.119, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards.

  Katherine Harris

  Florida, Law, Justice

  "Katherine Harris Unhappy With 'Recount'". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. June 3, 2008.

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• We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority.

  Noah Feldman

  Struggle, Thinking, Umpires

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• Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

  Karen DeCrow

  Men, Parent, Said

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• What I'm critical of is - the White House attacking conservatives, for saying we're elitist for pointing out that Harriet Miers isn't qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. I'm starting to feel sort of bad about - about saying that. And I'm annoyed with George Bush [Jr.] for putting us in the position of having to say that.

  Ann Coulter

  White, House, Annoyed

  "Ann Coulter on the Harriet Miers Nomination". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 13, 2005.

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• When our atheistically dominated Supreme Court removed the Ten Commandments from our halls, not a whimper was heard from the 95 million Christians in this country, who still don't realize that their religious freedoms are being systematically removed without a fight.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Tim LaHaye (1996). “Faith of Our Founding Fathers: A Comprehensive Study of America's Christian Foundations”, p.13, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• The Supreme Court has made God unconstitutional.

  Sam Ervin

  Scary, Made, Court

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• I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal - and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Couple, Gay

  "Obama On Gay Marriage Rulings: President Applauds Supreme Court Decisions". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2013.

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• Here is a good bill that's needed in America. If it's unconstitutional, let the U.S. Supreme Court reverse its opinion and get in line with New Hampshire and that will make it constitutional.

  Meldrim Thomson, Jr.

  America, Lines, Bills

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• The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust... Probably the first slave ship, with Negroes lying in chains on its decks, seemed commonsensical to the owners who operated it and to the planters who patronized it. But such a vessel would not be in the realm of common sense today. The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change.

  E. B. White

  Running, Lying, Silly

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• (H)er qualifications for the Supreme Court are non-existent. She is not a brilliant jurist, indeed, has never been a judge. She is not a scholar of the law. Researchers are hard-pressed to dig up an opinion. She has not had a brilliant career in politics, the academy, the corporate world or public forum. Were she not a friend of Bush, and female, she would never have even been considered.

  Pat Buchanan

  Law, Careers, Judging

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• Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

  Antonin Scalia

  Country, Design, Melting

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

  Antonin Scalia

  Fighting, Two, Long

  "Antonin Scalia Says Constitution Permits Court To ‘Favor Religion Over Non-Religion’" by Shadee Ashtari, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2, 2014.

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• It seems like things are upside down [in America] as we see right declared as wrong, and wrong as right. God is not pointing His finger at the Supreme Court, or the White House, or the Capitol. If you are a Christian, He is looking at you and at me to humble ourselves, pray, and seek God's face. He expects us to take action.

  Greg Laurie

  Christian, Humble, White

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