#supreme

At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#class #court #debt #debt limit #financial

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#been #before #court #done #gone

A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages. ↗

— John Yoo

#court #decision #eliminate #guantanamo #judicial

It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks. ↗

— John Yoo

#could #court #curing #disarming #future

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#desire #female #friendship #happiness #her

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. ↗

— John Marshall Harlan

#civil #civil rights #color #guaranteed #his

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#importance #supreme #unless

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation. ↗

— David Horowitz

#been #beginning #constitutional #court #court decision

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#happiness #life #loved #ourselves #rather

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#creator #enslaved #meter #our #poetry