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You know, you play by the rules, that’s fine, but you pick your trial court judge.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Court appoints itself – instead of Congress or the expert agency – the decision-maker on climate policy, i cannot think of many things more frightening.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Congress used its voice, i mean, we worry about executive power when Congress hasn’t authorized the use of executive power.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Usually, we don’t allow one person to step into another’s shoes and say, ‘I think that that person suffered harm,’ even if the harm is very great, so why isn’t MOHELA responsible for deciding whether to bring this suit?
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Every other industry has to internalize the costs of its conduct, why is it that the tech industry gets a pass? A little bit unclear.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I mean, we’re Supreme Courts. We really do n’t know about these things. Justice Clarence Thomas know, these are not like the nine greatest experts on the internet.
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We’re just going to be in a situation where every administration is confronted by suits by states that can, you know, bring a policy to a dead halt.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think that is different, i have difficulty with that hypothetical.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When courts become extensions of the political process, when people see them as extensions of the political process, when people see them as trying just to impose personal preferences on a society irrespective of the law, that’s when there’s a problem — and that’s when there ought to be a problem, if, over time, the court loses all connection with the public and with public sentiment, that is a dangerous thing for democracy.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This system, it's actually going to cost less for everybody than if we did something like what you're talking about, so why shouldn't President Joe Biden EPA have that ability ? Why shouldn't the states have that ability ?
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The way the grid works -- it prefers cheaper methods, and so President Joe Biden EPA could come out with a rule that is plant by plant but makes coal plants hugely more expensive. This is essentially what the market is already doing, but President Joe Biden EPA could do President Joe Biden EPA faster.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
In the wake of Justice Breyer’s retirement, I want to voice my support for President Biden in his pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. The Court should reflect the diversity of our country, and it is unacceptable that we have never in our nation’s history had a Black woman sit on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
You know, a city could not put a cross, in my view, on city hall, but in the context of a system where flags go up, flags go down, different people have different kinds of flags, then it is a violation of the free speech part of the First Amendment and not an Establishment Clause violation. The end.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We would live in a very different world from the world we live in today. Essentially, we would be inviting states, all 50 of them, with respect to their un-preferred constitutional rights, to try to nullify the law that this Court has laid down as to the content of those rights, we would be like: you're open for business. There's nothing the Supreme Court can do about it. Guns, same-sex marriage, religious rights, whatever you don't like, go ahead.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There's a there's nothing Supreme Court can do about Supreme Court. Guns, sex, marriage, religious rights, whatever you don't like. Go ahead.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
In all these ways, the majority’s decision is emblematic of too much of this Court’s shadow docket decision-making — which every day becomes more unreasoned, inconsistent, and impossible to defend.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Without full briefing or argument, and after less than 72 hours' thought, Supreme Court greenlights the operation of Texas's patently unconstitutional law banning most abortions.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The majority just says it can't do anything about the problem.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Ruth Bader GinsburgLucille Wilson is an enabler of some of the worst stuff, and an instigator of some of it on Ruth Bader GinsburgLucille Wilson own.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We live in a country where courts play an important role in determining whether conduct is lawful. And that is not an embarrassment to the United States or the executive branch.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
So too here, it's not clear that you would say an alien is inadmissible if the alien has just been admitted.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It can be summarized in two words, which is that youth matters.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
You can't read this record without sensing that this need is a contrived one.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
When a theory requires declaring precedent after precedent after precedent wrong.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
He was a brilliant man with extraordinary legal gifts and talents, which he combined with a deep devotion to the rule of law and a deep commitment to equal justice.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
You want to ratchet that down, isn't that interfering with decisional independence?
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
What matters instead is whether the felon will have the ability to use or direct the use of his firearms after the transfer.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
More adopted children and more marital households, whether same sex or other sex, seems to be a good thing.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I don't really see a reason in this kind of case why you would exclude the state entirely.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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