Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, American democracy is being undermined by the ability of the Koch brothers… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We want this - and I - we hope that right when they come back, that the Congress passes the Lilly Ledbetter… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care… — Nancy Northup Copy Share Image
Well, they really didn't have to worry, because the way power politics works, the World Court can't do anything. Look, there's one… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Due to a Supreme Court decision, if these violent offenders cannot be sent home, our law enforcement officers have to release them… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is there is significant debate among judicial scholars today as to whether or not we've gone off… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I had been thinking independently about our ability to forget things that happened, specifically, events that clearly were wrong, that crossed the… — Robert Kane Pappas Copy Share Image
That's a question best put to Bernie Sanders himself, but I think that he will probably put forward ideas that are related… — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
A Supreme Court decision does not establish a supreme law of the land that is binding on all persons and parts of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
That very document [Constitution] does little to serve people when Supreme Court decisions are written so that even high-priced lawyers can't figure… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Take a look at the Supreme Court decision that just authorized an effort by U.S. claimants against Iran for terrorist acts. What… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is what everybody's forgetting about [Barak] Obama and his immigration law and his executive action and his amnesty on it, the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty. — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image