#statute

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute. ↗

— Zoe Lofgren

#conception #constitution #establish #federal #federal law

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. ↗

— John Rawls

#citizens #criterion #enact #ideally #legislators

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#applications #costs #flaw #fraud #fundamentally

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#chills #creates #deny #discretion #existence

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage. ↗

— John Boehner

#activist #amendment #constitutional #constitutional amendment #current

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#employees #employer #existing #forth #his

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amendment #authorizing #concern #core #framers

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#although #annual #assessment #connecticut #every

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. ↗

— John Bolton

#american #because #chain #command #could

The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#actual #among #cannot #concerned #course