William Rehnquist Quotes

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• [I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather…
• The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."
• If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would…
• It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of…
• Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be…
• I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson…
• The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to…
• Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability
• What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our Nation considered the…
• The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.
• A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the…

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