#court

We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

#american people #appointment #carefully #consider #court

The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades. ↗

— Lilly Ledbetter

#company #complaint #court #decades #decision

We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman. ↗

— Lilly Ledbetter

#american #because #court #decision #equal

There is too little courtship in the world. ↗

— Vernon Lee

#little #too #world

Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great. ↗

— Lisa Leslie

#always #compliment #court #fact #fans

I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am. ↗

— Lisa Leslie

#am #been #court #encourage #feminine

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#congress #constitution #courts #masters #men

We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court system that's crying out for more judges. ↗

— Joe Lockhart

#crying #dozens #judges #judicial #more

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war. ↗

— Belva Lockwood

#could #court #depend #fair #impartial

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#appear #bank #courts #declare #gesture