#court

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#argue #arising #before #capital #case

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? ↗

— William Osler

#eludes #ever #fickle #grasp #his

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance. ↗

— James Otis

#before #books #concerning #consider #court

He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#candidate #candidates #court #extremely #group

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#battlefield #bible #course #court #courts

While significant strides have been made in the pursuit of life expectancy, healthcare, educational opportunities, and constitutional protections for women, the Supreme Court, in particular, still wrestles with their status, as evidenced by their problems in pursuing equal opportunity in education and employment, reproductive freedom, the military, and violence against women. ↗

— David E. Wilkins

#supreme-court #violence #women-s-rights #education

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. ↗

— Robert Bork

#because #change #congress #constitution #constitutional

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#act #allow #casual #courtroom #licensing

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#courtesy #manners #politeness #art

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward. ↗

— Charles Edison

#arrangement #awkward #confusing #constitution #courts