#supreme

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#books #court #early #high #high quality

A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#concessions #court #court decision #decision #effective

The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#commission #control #court #destiny #election

A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages. ↗

— John Yoo

#court #decision #eliminate #guantanamo #judicial

It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks. ↗

— John Yoo

#could #court #curing #disarming #future

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. ↗

— Lee Strasberg

#actor #because #delivered #does #essence

Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#court #democracy #died #dies #injected

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. ↗

— John Marshall Harlan

#civil #civil rights #color #guaranteed #his

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. ↗

— John Howard

#assert #disposable #life #national #never

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#happiness #life #loved #ourselves #rather