Quotes About Court

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

There were piles of horse manure in the entrance court and noisome heaps of refuse that would not bear investigating on the street outside the kitchen door. In some wings the stench of chamber pots was pervasive; in others the odor was unidentifiable and indescribable, but just as overpowering.

My client," the lawyer said forcefully, "is pleading the Fifth.

He sat in the living room in the dark, an expert at waiting, a nineteen-year veteran of it, waiting for people who failed to appear, missed court dates because they forgot or didn't care, and took off. Nineteen years of losers, repeat offenders in and out of the system. Another one, that's all Louis was, slipping back into the life.

And there was a stocky black guy named Desmond that Raylan met who went after offenders who missed their court dates.

Butler had an excuse for not being in Iceland that would hold up in any court of law and possibly even on a note for teacher.

In the great court, surrounded by broken-down droshkies and the skeletons of German motor-buses, we spread our sleeping-bags on the oily ground beside our vehicle. For the first time since leaving Istanbul we had achieved Hugh's ambition to sleep 'under the stars'.

Lawsuit, n. a machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage.

Court is a place where facts STILL matter

But all in all, it's no big deal—you came out at a funeral, I came out in court, and together, we're town legend. Go us.

Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it.

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.

The destructive impact of employment tribunal fees, which were introduced in 2013, is by now well known.

I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

During my years as a practicing lawyer, it just was part of your study of what Congress was trying to say in their statutes. I never really considered judges or scholars as either those who used legislative history or those who were opposed to it until after I got on the court.

I practise law almost every day. Exclusively criminal work these days.

I always look for judges who respect precedent.

The value of a decision as a precedent is very much enhanced by the care with which it has been considered, and if the opinion itself shows that other decisions of the same court, or of other courts upon the same point, have been reviewed and examined, it adds to the value of the decision made on each consideration.

My preference is to just be on the court. I just want to play no matter where that is at.

You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.

The John F. Kennedy presidency, with its glittering court of Camelot, cemented the impression that it was the Democrats who represented the thinking men and women of America.