Supreme court Quotes · Page 5

This is America. We don't call an election before we know who won. That, after all, is the job of the Supreme…

— Bill Maher

The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

— Lamar S. Smith

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

— Barbara Jordan

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

— Cecile Richards

It's our last chance [November 8, 2016]. And that includes Supreme Court justices and Second Amendment. Remember that.

— Donald Trump

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

— Antonin Scalia

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

— Howard Dean

The Supreme Court has never ruled that the children of illegal aliens are American citizens.

— Rush Limbaugh

The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week whether banning cross burning by groups like the Klu Klux Klan violates the…

— Tina Fey

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed…

— Cliff Stearns

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

We've gone down a road to which we don't have the answers for. That's why we have the schizophrenic decisions coming out…

— Tom Coburn

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices,…

— John Bates Clark

That's not how national security works... I don't care what the Supreme Court said 30 years ago or what some judge said…

— Mark Levin

President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's religion in making…

— Peter Baker

In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the…

— Thurgood Marshall

“More intriguingly, in poll after poll, when Americans are asked what public institutions they most respect, three bodies are always at the…

— Fareed Zakaria

I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives…

— Juan Williams

Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected…

— Edward Jenks

My take is that there's two ways to approach history. You sit in your armchair and you watch it on the news…

— Tom Morello

Now that Mr. Trump is the President-elect: If he chooses, he can, by executive order, repeal most of what President Barack Obama…

— Louis Farrakhan

“I'll now fall back a furlong or two in me chair, while me larned but misguided collagues r-read th' Histhry iv Iceland…

— Finley Peter Dunne

The birth control pill, to a great degree, made possible the (hetero)sexual revolution. Yet those who developed oral contraceptives did not intend…

— Beth Bailey

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme…

— John Doolittle

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

— Rand Paul

The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by…

— Brett Kavanaugh

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality…

— Anonymous

If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the…

— Harry A. Blackmun

I don't think we need political activists on the Supreme Court or any other level of court.

— Dick Mountjoy

I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.

— Hillary Clinton

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

— Herb Kohl

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the public is entitled to know what the legal views of a Supreme Court candidate are.

— Ayelet Shaked

The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college.

— Clarence Thomas

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a supreme law of the land that is binding on all persons and parts of…

— Anonymous

The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president,…

— Patrick Leahy

I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but…

— Randall Kennedy

Unlike tennis matches, Supreme Court decisions are tiebreaker-free, meaning the lower-court ruling stands without any high-court guidance.

— Don Willett

The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.

— Max Baucus

Trump v. United States would become, in short order, one of the worst opinions ever issued by the Supreme Court.

— Jamelle Bouie