Quotes tagged ‘Supreme Court’

“The end result is a Court that sounds ready to reverse Roe immediately, political consequences be damned. And if the Court is no longer worried about political backlash, there is no telling what it will do next.”

— Mary Ziegler, cnn.com

“The reason we have life tenure, as federal judges, is to be insulated from the pressure that such things like focus groups, or polls, or public opinion, the pressure that it might apply for a court to decide a case a particular way or the other. That’s why we decide it according to the text.”

— Amy Coney Barrett , youtube.com

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cultural icon, died on Friday at her home in Washington.”

— Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, nytimes.com

“Justice Scalia’s death delayed a reckoning. Now the fight over contraception is back.”

— Ian Millhiser, Vox , vox.com

“Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently underwent a fresh round of treatment for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas, the high court said in a statement Friday.”

— Adam Edelman, NBC News, nbcnews.com

“You can see the damn Supreme Court from my window. And it says, ‘Equal justice under the law.’ And we’re not anywhere close to it.”

— Joe Kennedy III, townandcountrymag.com

“Young people can't name a single Justice on the US Supreme Court but they can name all three judges on American Idol. It's pretty sad.”

— Sandra Day O'Connor, makers.com

“Uncle Michael, listen—I know you're into banks and Wall Street, but everyone knows you're the final word, you're like the Supreme Court. All I want to do is protect you from these guys and your lawyers can't do that.”

— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Don Vincent 'Vinnie' Mancini-Corleone, Andy Garcia, imdb.com

“Peggy Hill: Did a woman ruin the Supreme Court? Hank Hill: Yes, and that woman's name was Earl Warren.”

— Gina Fattore, Peggy Hill, Kathy Najimy, imdb.com

“My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential. Two things were important to her and she repeated them endlessly. One was to ‘be a lady,’ and that meant conduct yourself civilly, don’t let emotions like anger or envy get in your way. And the other was to be ind…”

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg, amazon.com

“And as I say to you, whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court, he ceases to be your friend, you can be sure of that.”

— Harry S Truman, amazon.com

“Let's see. June 22, 1992, Supreme Court ruled Minnesota hate crime laws violated free speech. The defendant burned a cross on the front yard of an African-American family's house who lived next door.”

— Rick Dunkle, Penelope Garcia, Kirsten Vangsness, imdb.com

“The Supreme Court is a political instrument composed of malleable political creatures. It's not some august body of intellectuals and cerebral types who are going to maximize fidelity to the Constitution. Today's Court is frightening in its stupidity. Four of the nine justices (Warren Burger, Willia…”

— Al Goldstein, filthy.media

“Eating pussy is much more intimate, much more private. With fucking you really don’t get the taste, the smell of the woman, unless she's been racing horses around the track. I think it’s pretty shocking that the Supreme Court said that eating pussy is an act against nature (Doe v. Commonwealth's Att…”

— Al Goldstein, filthy.media

“When I first started out, I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.”

— Larry Flynt, cnn.com

“One of the things people always say to you if you get upset is, don't take it personally, but listen hard to what's going on and, please, I beg you, take it personally. Understand: every attack on Hillary Clinton for not knowing her place is an attack on you. Underneath almost all those attacks are…”

— Nora Ephron, wellesley.edu

“A Hillary Clinton Supreme Court means your right to own a firearm is gone.”

— Chris Cox, cnn.com