Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.
As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.
God bless the Florida Supreme Court.
I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.
Whether you're in bed or in court, everybody gets off.
It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion.
You've got Bush and Gore headed to the Supreme Court. You've got George W. Bush's intelligence will be pitted against Al Gore's honesty. This is more like a case for small claims court.
Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.
It is a maxim in our law that a plaintiff must shew that he stands on a fair ground when he calls on a Court of justice to administer relief to him.
Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.
In 1962 (Engel v. Vitale), the Supreme Court explained that the word 'church' would no longer mean a federally established denomination; it would now mean a religious activity in public.
We got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.
In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children.
I will not change just to court popularity.
A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. . . . "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define. "A kiss. " My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning. "Done," I said.
The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.
I feel like I have to step on the court every night and be dominant.
The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.
But people try love and because they are unconscious. . . their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of anger, full of nastiness. Soon they destroy it. Hence for centuries they have depended on marriage. Better to start by marriage so that the law can protect you from destroying it. The society, the government, the court, the policeman, the priest, they will all force you to live in the institution of marriage, and you will be just a slave. If marriage is an institution, you are going to be a slave in it. Only slaves want to live in institutions.
I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility.