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There’s 50 million students who will benefit from this who today will struggle, many of them don’t have assets sufficient to bail them out after the pandemic.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think the bottom-line answer to be, everybody suffered in the pandemic. But different people got different benefits because they qualified under different programs, correct?
Found on CNN 1 year ago
And what you’re saying is now we’re going to give judges the right to decide how much aid to give them instead of the person with the expertise and the experience, the secretary of education who’s been dealing with educational issues and the problems surrounding student loans.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Sometimes, I was shell shocked, other times I was just deeply, deeply sad, and many times, I did have a sense of despair about the direction my court was going.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Every decision we make is written, fully explained, fully defended, fully laid out. But you can’t do that and maintain a show.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
After assuming away an Establishment Clause violation, Supreme Court revolutionized Free Exercise doctrine by equating a State's decision not to fund a religious organization with presumptively unconstitutional discrimination on the basis of religious status.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
There are days I get discouraged, then I say,' OK, let's fight.'.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
That's why I can be friends with Justice Clarence Thomas and still continue our daily battle over our differences of opinions in cases, you really can't begin to understand an adversary unless you step away from looking at their views as motivated in bad faith.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
He has a very different vision than I do about how to help people... and about their responsibilities to help themselves, i have often said to people that Justice Clarence Thomas believes that every person can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I believe that some people can't get to their bootstraps without help -- they need someone to help them lift their foot up so that they can reach.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I thought that none of them constitutionally can use excessive force.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is really a step further than anything we have said before, all of our other cases, whether its regulation of tobacco, or regulation of evictions under major questions doctrine, have not addressed the' how.' Now... you want President Joe Biden EPA to look at the' how.'.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The advantage of diversity, whether it’s gender or race or ethnicity or even professional work, whatever the diversity represents, it gives people who don’t otherwise think there’s opportunity, it aspires them to believe there might be.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
One of the hardest things about our work is that there are no easy answers, reasonable people can disagree... Obviously, just as the larger society disagrees about the answers to some of our problems, so does Supreme Court. And if you bear that in mind, perhaps the public can be more accepting of the kind of work we do.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's hard to see how impoverished people, unfamiliar with the workings of this government, of this country, are going to find lawyers, it seems like a pyrrhic offering to say that an individual hearing is of any benefit to them.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition, many on ventilators.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
While pediatric hospitalizations are rising, they are still about 15-fold less than hospitalizations of our older demographics.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We have over 100,000 children, which we've never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Comparatively, the risk of death is small, but of course children aren't supposed to die, so if we have a child who is sick with COVID-19 … we want to protect them, of course.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s hard to believe someone so misinformed sits on the court, but that’s where we are — 100,000 kids are not in ICUs or on ventilators. That’s about 30-fold more than reality per the HHS, even Anthony Fauci admits that most kids are hospitalized with COVID, not because of COVID.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amount, look at me, look at my dissents.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It seems to me that your very argument that it's independent is suggesting it can't belong to the territory and that there's a serious problem that the federal government is creating an entity that no one can control.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This is not quite ignorance of the law. This is something substantially different because you're talking about ... knowledge that your body can be invaded by police to secure evidence to prove you drove intoxicated.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Race matters in part because of the long history of racial minorities' being denied access to the political process.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Our democracy rests on the ability of all individuals, regardless of race, income, or status, to exercise their right to vote, communities that are disproportionately affected by unnecessarily harsh registration laws should not tolerate efforts to marginalize their influence in the political process, nor should allies who recognize blatant unfairness stand idly by.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
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