Supreme Court Quotes - Page 22

• In one fell swoop we can now see the same mental health benefits of marriage for same sex couples as heterosexual couples, the main reason there is a benefit to being in a legally recognized marriage is that it introduces a level of stability into a relationship. This is going to help change the social climate. Hearing the Supreme Court say this is OK will help couples feel like they're part of regular society.

  Rick Wright

  Change, Sex, Couple

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

  Carolyn Maloney

  Law, Decision, Important

  "A new version of the ERA" by Beth Fouhy, www.cnn.com. August 25, 1999.

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• Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like.

  Molly Ivins

  School, Mad, Benches

  "Ivins: The new 'activist' judges" by Molly Ivins, www.cnn.com. August 24, 2006.

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

  Nat King Cole

  School, Hard Times, Chance

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

  Robert Reich

  People, Needs, Corporations

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• The Supreme Court kept me from my freedom.

  Dred Scott

  Court, Supreme

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• An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

  John Roberts

  Court Judges, Appreciate, Judging

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• The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

  Marc Edwards

  Attention, Half, Vote

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• There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us.

  Gloria Allred

  War, Winning, Rights

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• 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.

  Antonin Scalia

  Years, Law, Two

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

  Howard Dean

  Speech, Rich, Form

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• With Republicans in control of the Senate for the first time since Barack Obama took office, the president may find it harder to appoint left-wing lawyers to judgeships. Whether he compromises on some of his nominees, including any to the Supreme Court, may depend on the willingness of the new Republican majority to engage the president on judicial philosophy.

  Terry Eastland

  Philosophy, Wings, Office

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• A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Moving, Eye, President

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• When the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted, those high contracting parties did positively agree that they would not interfere with religious affairs. Now, if our marital relations are not religious, what is? This ordinance of marriage was a direct revelation to us, through Joseph Smith, the prophet. . . . This is a revelation from God and a command to his people, and therefore it is my religion. I do not believe that the Supreme Court of the United States has any right to interfere with my religious views, and in doing it they are violating their most sacred obligations.

  John Taylor

  Religious, Party, Believe

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• I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate, i spent five and a half years as the solicitor-general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

  Ted Cruz

  Texas, Years, Community

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

  Arthur Eddington

  Truth, Learning, Appeals

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “The Philosophy of Physical Science: Tarner Lectures (1938)”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

  Martha Griffiths

  Justice, Different, Prejudice

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