#courts

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. ↗

— Washington Irving

#because #business #courts #lawyers #young

"Empathy" is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. ↗

— Karl Rove

#backlash #branch #clay #code #constitution

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this. ↗

— Marat Safin

#courts #give #hate #i #practicing

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with. ↗

— Marat Safin

#balls #break #buy #courts #impossible

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#challenges #commandments #congress #courts #federal

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#courtship #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#earth #god #heaven #hereafter #i

It's been sanctioned by the courts, and I accept that. ↗

— Gary Gilmore

#been #courts #i #sanctioned

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#also #assist #corrupt #courtroom #courts

The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether today an admittedly far greater number requiring far less talent can succeed. The real question is whether it's harder for the people in this audience to succeed be they extraordinary, average, or below average. If it is, and I think it obvious that it is, then that's untenable in a country that purports to provide equal opportunity for all. Now of course you'll dispute my claim that it is more difficult to succeed for them. You say the battle's over. I say not only is it not over but you yourself are stationed on the frontline of the battle and have been all these years. This room and the criminal justice system as a whole is the frontline. This is where modern-day segregation lives on. ↗

— Sergio De La Pava

#colorblind-racism #courts #criminal-justice #law #prison