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I ’m afraid I ’m completely confused by whatever argument you’re making at the present time, so I guess I ’m thoroughly confused.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Boy, is your work needed today, congratulations to the Federalist Society on 40 years.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I still haven't heard any explanation for the disparity between the personal scores that are given to Asians.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Now where we're in a new term, I think that all of us want … things to get back to normal the way they were before all this last term, before COVID, get back to normal to the greatest degree possible. And that's what we hope will happen.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The catchy and sinister term ‘shadow docket’ has been used to portray the court as having been captured by a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways… This portrayal feeds unprecedented efforts to intimidate the court or damage it as an independent institution.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I see no reason why we should not grant a stay at this time.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I had the honor this term of writing, I think, the only Supreme Court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders, one of these was former Prime Minister Boris Johnson -- but he paid the price.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Religious liberty is under attack in many places because it is dangerous to those who want to hold complete power, it also probably grows out of something dark and deep in the human DNA -- a tendency to distrust and dislike people who are not like ourselves.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I had the honor this term of writing I think the only The Court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Government must either :( 1) detain them,( 2) return them to a contiguous foreign nation, or( 3) parole them into the United States on an individualized, case-by-case basis, these options operate in a hydraulic relationship : When it is not possible for the Government to comply with the statutory mandate to detain inadmissible aliens pending further proceedings, it must resort to one or both of the other two options in order to comply with the detention requirement to the greatest extent possible.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences, and far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While the concurrence is moved by a desire for judicial minimalism, ‘we cannot embrace a narrow ground of decision simply because it is narrow; it must also be right,’.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In sum, the concurrence’s quest for a middle way would only put off the day when we would be forced to confront the question we now decide. The turmoil wrought by Roe and Casey would be prolonged, it is far better—for this Court and the country—to face up to the real issue without further delay.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have also explained why that is so : rights regarding contraception and same-sex relationships are inherently different from the right to abortion because the latter( as we have stressed) uniquely involves what Roe and Casey termed' potential life,'.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Our decision, as noted does not expand the categories of people who may lawfully possess a gun and federal law generally forbids the possession of a handgun by a person who is under the age of 18.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
How does the dissent account for the fact that one of the mass shootings near the top of its list took place in Buffalo ? The New York law at issue in this case obviously did not stop the perpetrator.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The critiques he levels at Roe -- Supreme Court's not in the constitutional text ; there aren't early state constitutional provisions or early state or federal court decisions recognizing the right -- apply to those other rights, and he'd happily overrule them if he could.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Constitution says nothing about a right to same-sex marriage, but Supreme Court holds that the term' liberty' in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment encompasses this right.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The pandemic has resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
What weight do Justice Clarence Thomas assign to the effects of climate change, which some people believe is matter of civilizational survival, and the costs and the effect on jobs ? i really don't see what the concrete limitations are in any of what you said if you take the arguments about climate change seriously, and this is a matter of survival.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
A lot of Chief Justice John Roberts brief and all the other briefs that have been filed against Texas in both of these cases suggest that we should issue a rule that applied just to this case, when we decide a case, the rule that we establish should apply to everybody who's similarly situated.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This portrayal feeds unprecedented efforts to intimidate the court and to damage it as an independent institution.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Our decisions in these three emergency matters have been criticized by those who think we should have decided them the other way, and I have no trouble with fair criticism of the substance of those decisions.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We think we’re correct on the law, that when you make a major change in policy the way they did by moving away from Remain-in-Mexico you have to use reasoned decision making and you can't meet the standard of reasoned decision making if you don't actually consider drug trafficking coming across the border, and they didn't when they changed the policy.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The dissent is correct that the Voting Rights Act exemplifies our country’s commitment to democracy, but there is nothing democratic about the dissent’s attempt to bring about a wholesale transfer of the authority to set voting rules from the States to the federal courts.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Now, the election is over, and there is no reason for refusing to decide the important question that these cases pose.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I see no attempt to avoid arrest. I see somebody who ... may well have not have even noticed these lights and simply proceeded into his own garage.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I would think you would be able to tell us whether that remains a realistic possibility at this point.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Court has expressed the hope that the Court of Appeals will proceed with appropriate dispatch, and I see no reason why the Court of Appeals should not be able to decide this case, one way or the other, within the next 60 days.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I would be very uncomfortable trying to decide whether, as a matter of Virginia law, anybody other than the attorney general can ever represent the Commonwealth.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
What the president regrets is that Senate Democrats didn't focus more on making an effective public case about those substantive objections, instead, some Democrats engaged in a process of throwing sand in the gears of the confirmation process. And that's an approach that the president regrets.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
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