#justices

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

#bring #concurrently #confirmed #court #general

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#assemble #citizens #crystallized #demand #future

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state. ↗

— Martin McGuinness

#beside #exist #injustices #leave #northern

The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#again #against #am #appeals #court

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#injustices #longer #silent #suffer #them

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#constitution #current #justices #only #read

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#concurred #could #court #decision #four

"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

#backlash #branch #clay #code #constitution

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

#court #decades #going #historic #history

Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#free #free societies #injustices #serious #societies