Cases Quote by Sandra Day O'Connor Download Open image “The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.” — Sandra Day O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cases Constitution Court Court Sits Fact Law Member Court Sits Cases
The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
I don't think that the Supreme Court really takes cases with kind of a theme in mind. They get about 10,000 requests a year,… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw did a essay on Television about the U.S.district courts are the trial courts serving as the original point of entry for almost… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk. — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
[Felix Frankfurter] said courts are not representative bodies. They're not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society. Their judgment is best… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
The courts are supposed to be the inferior branch of our three branches of government. — Matthew Whitaker Copy Share Image
You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel… — Sol Wachtler Copy Share Image
“The justice system can't be totally free of lies and distortion; after all, courts are chock-full of lawyers.” — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through which the… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature,… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to… — Gaylord Perry Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
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