#courts

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#bad #broad #courts #facts #forth

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail? ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#cbs #courts #day #defense #effect

CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#court #courts #exhausted #highest #intermediate

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government. ↗

— Todd Akin

#branch #court #courts #general #government

They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#changing #courts #know #people #results

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed. ↗

— Byron White

#busy #choices #clause #constantly #courts

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure. ↗

— Ricardo Lagos

#country #courts #free #i #job

My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#any #bmw #clay #club #concept

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