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I am very pleased to return to Harvard to teach there and to write, among other things, I will likely try to explain why I believe it important that the next generations of those associated with the law engage in work, and take approaches to law, that help the great American constitutional experiment work effectively for the American people.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Many States have tried to address some of the dangers of gun violence just described by passing laws that limit, in various ways, who may purchase, carry or use forearms of different kinds, the Court today severely burdens States' efforts to do so.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
( T) Chief Justice John Roberts Court's decisions in Trinity Trinity Lutheran and Espinoza prohibit States from denying aid to religious schools solely because of a school's religious status — that is, its affiliation with or control by a religious organization, but Trinity Lutheran and Espinoza have never said that the Free Exercise Clause prohibits States from withholding funds because of the religious use to which the money will be put.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Pretty similar to what we just allowed in that case of the attorney general.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We know already that our government treated Zubaydah brutally -- more than 80 waterboarding sessions, hundreds of hours of live burial and what it calls' rectal rehydration,' but as embarrassing as these facts may be, there is no state secret here.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I had thought President Joe Biden EPA have a whole Stephen Breyer Code filled with delegations to different agencies, and many of those words are fairly technical, is it a minor matter having to do with administration that they're more familiar with ? Is it something that's going to change the whole United States of America -- that cuts the other way ?
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I will tell you what Lincolnthought and what Washingtonthought and what people todaystill think.It's an experiment, associated Press's an experiment.That's what they said.And Joanna [ Breyer's wife ] paid each of our grandchildrencertain amount of money tomemorize the Gettysburg Address.What I want the students to pickup, if I can remember, are thefirst two lines, ‘ Four score andseven years ago, our forefathersbrought upon -- created a newcountry.A country that was dedicated toliberty and the proposition thatall men are created equal.Conceived in liberty. ’.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's an institution that's fallible, though over time it has served this country pretty well.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I mean, eventually I ’ll retire, sure I will, and it’s hard to know exactly when.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don’t think I’m going to stay there till I die — hope not.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
[T]hink twice, at least, … If A can do it, B can do it. And what are you going to have when you have A and B doing it?
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's an institution that's fallible, though over time it has served this country pretty well, as Mother used to say : every race, every religion, every point of view possible is held by people in this country. And it's helped them to live together.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think everyone can agrees that this is a beautiful painting.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Of course you’re going to think it has something to do with the city.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think I have most of the considerations in mind. I simply have to weigh Senate Democrats and think about Senate Democrats and decide when the proper time is.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
[T]o overrule under fire in the absence of the most compelling reason to reexamine a watershed decision would subvert the Court's legitimacy beyond any serious question.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Legal stability allows lawyers to give clients sound advice and allows ordinary citizens to plan their lives, each time This Court overrules a case, This Court produces increased uncertainty.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
And that is what Texas has done, by prohibiting state officials from enforcing the statute and by authorizing the citizenry to enforce the law through private civil-enforcement actions, Texas has boxed out the judiciary from entertaining.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I've also said that I hope I don't die on the Supreme Court, and there we are.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I mean you can't really see what the people look like, how are they reacting. You can't pick up something that your colleague said so easily. What is this colleague -- what does he or she think of what's going on. And when you're there in person it's a more human thing, and I'd say that's what it was : a big improvement today.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I'm there for everybody. I'm not just there for the Democrats. I'm not just there for the Republicans. And I'm not just there because the president was a Democrat who appointed me, it's a very great privilege to be in that job. And part of it is to remember that you're there for everyone. They won't like what you say half the time – or more. But you're still there for them.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Well, if one party could do it, I guess another party could do it.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Stephen Breyer, who turned 83 earlier this month, told The New York Times. Stephen Breyer recounted a conversation Stephen Breyer had with the late Justice Antonin Scalia :.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who turned 83 earlier this month, told The New York Times. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer recounted a conversation Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer had with the late Justice Antonin Scalia :.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You have to figure out what you're going to say in conference to a greater extent, to get it across simply, you have to be flexible, hear other people, and be prepared to modify your views. But that doesn't mean( going in with) a blank mind.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I mean, my goodness, every school in the country would be doing nothing but punishing.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't see much evidence it did, i mean, my goodness, every school in the country would be doing nothing but punishing.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It might be tempting to dismiss B. L.’s words as unworthy of the robust First Amendment protections discussed herein, but sometimes it is necessary to protect the superfluous in order to preserve the necessary.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
If the public sees judges as politicians in robes, its confidence in the courts and in the rule of law can only diminish, diminishing the court's power, including its power to act as a check on other branches, that authority, like the rule of law, depends on trust... that the court is guided by legal principle, not politics.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Structural alteration motivated by the perception of political influence can only feed that latter perception, further eroding that trust.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
What I’m trying to do is to make those whose instincts may favor important structural change or other similar institutional changes such as forms of court-packing to think long and hard before they embody those changes in law.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The problem with trying to separate misdemeanor and felony is that different states have different rules and different crimes that count as misdemeanors.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
What we have is ... an absolute road map for people who want to avoid the 'point source' regulation.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
You can't say never, if it always holds, we wouldn't have Brown versus Board [ of Education ]. But, if it never holds, we're really in trouble in terms of the stability of the law. Okay ? Wonderful. This has occurred to you, this problem. And do you have anything to say that will help me decide this kind of balance ?
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Imagine I'm your client, forget I'm a judge. That's not too difficult.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The bail questions before us are technical but at heart they are simple, we need only recall the words of the Declaration of Independence, in particular its insistence that all men and women have ‘certain unalienable rights,’ and that among them is the right to liberty.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The apparent reason has nothing to do with the heinousness of their crimes, apparently the reason the State decided to proceed with these eight executions is that the 'use by' date of the state's execution drug is about to expire. In my view, that factor, when considered as a determining factor separating those who live from those who die, is close to random.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
One could reasonably believe that if Tucker had committed the same crime just across the Red River in, say, Bossier Parish, he would not now be on death row.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
(CNN anchor) Bernard Shaw -- we saw him on television -- said, 'They're going to nominate Judge Breyer.' Then I heard nothing for three hours, they're saying this on television, but no one's told me.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I thought there couldn't be a more controversial question than the one before.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is not what people expected when they wrote the cases upholding the death penalty more than forty years ago, and therefore I think it's time to revisit the issue.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is not what people expected when they wrote the cases upholding the death penalty more than 40 years ago.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What I wrote in the opinion - first to suggest sometimes its the wrong person. Second, if you look at who is actually executed it seems pretty arbitrary, third, if you look at the average length of time it takes from the time a person is sentenced to death to the time of execution - 18 years now.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We believe it highly likely that the death penalty now violates the Constitution.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We believe it highly likely that the death penalty now violates the Eighth Amendment.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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