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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. -- Donna Leon
Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so. -- John Cornyn
The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo. -- John Yoo
Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law. -- Robert Bork
There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices. -- Patrick Leahy
It's quite a stark contrast between the candidates, in how they will change things for women. Hillary Clinton wants to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will protect Roe v Wade. [Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood. -- Natalie Portman
I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk. -- Elena Kagan
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. -- William J. Brennan
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents. -- Richard M. Nixon
I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush. -- Vincent Bugliosi
It's sobering to think of the seventeen chief justices; certainly a solid majority of them have to be characterized as failures. The successful ones are hard to number. -- John Roberts
Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush. -- Vincent Bugliosi
I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that. -- Fred Thompson
A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices. -- Vincent Bugliosi
What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the Constitution and who don't see themselves as a super legislature. -- Michele Bachmann
FDR's justices were allies while he was alive, but after he died, they developed four totally different theories of what the Constitution is, two of which are considered conservative and two of which are considered liberal. -- Noah Feldman
To hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, you'd think the most successful Supreme Court justices had been warm, collegial consensus-builders. But history tells a different story. -- Noah Feldman
Roosevelt got a chance to name an amazing nine justices of the Supreme Court. He was not namby-pamby on this question. He wanted people who shared his views, he wanted liberals, and he wanted lots of them. -- Noah Feldman
And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush. -- Vincent Bugliosi
While some of the tales of woe emanating from the court are enough to bring tears to the eyes, it is true that only Supreme Court justices and schoolchildren are expected to and do take the entire summer off. -- John Roberts
The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did. -- Harold H. Greene
Many voters think about the makeup of the Supreme Court when they are choosing a president. The justices deal not only with constitutional issues but also with social issues that were unknown to the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution more than 200 years ago. -- Helen Thomas
It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story. -- Vincent Bugliosi
When I worked in the Department of Justice, in the office of the solicitor general, it was my job to argue cases for the United States before the Supreme court. I always found it very moving to stand before the justices and say, 'I speak for my country.' -- John Roberts
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief executives, or the woman who wants to learn to fly F-l8s off an aircraft carrier, it works differently. -- Stacy Schiff
Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. -- Karl Rove
A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has. -- John Roberts
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 court's own legitimacy and authority. -- Noah Feldman
I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me. -- Elena Kagan
America is just so imperative that we have the right justices. -- Donald Trump
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace. -- Therese of Lisieux
I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear. -- Donald Trump
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. -- William J. Brennan
It's our last chance [November 8, 2016]. And that includes Supreme Court justices and Second Amendment. Remember that. -- Donald Trump
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography. -- Phyllis Schlafly
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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
If we think there is an undermining now, just wait if Sharia is adopted or utilized by justices in the United States. -- Donald Trump
It's going to mean four or five justices, super liberal, placed on the Supreme Court. Our country will never, ever be the same. -- Donald Trump
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I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of the 21st century. -- Frank Lautenberg
This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are going to serve for decades. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices. -- Mark Kingwell
Donald Trump's insulting comments about women go hand in hand with his plans to defund Planned Parenthood and appoint Supreme Court justices who will end legal abortion. -- Hillary Clinton
When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that's tyranny. -- Mark Levin
It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their judicial oath. And taking the role of policy makers and legislators, rather than being judges. -- Ted Cruz
You know, it shows how old I am. I can remember the good old days when the president picked the Supreme Court justices instead of the other way around. -- Jay Leno
This is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Liberals want justices to vote a certain way. We [ conservatives] want a particular legal philosophy, a philosophy for how to interpret the Constitution. -- Ann Coulter
I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that -- Fred Thompson
Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret the First Amendment as a prohibition against religious activity on public property. -- Tim LaHaye

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