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One of the important things to keep in mind about Roe v. Wade is that it has been reaffirmed many times over the past 45 years, as you know, and most prominently, most importantly, reaffirmed in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
It is not as if it is just a run-of-the-mill case that was decided and never been reconsidered, but Casey specifically reconsidered it, applied the stare decisis factors and decided to reaffirm it, that makes Casey a precedent on precedent.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
A former president must be able to successfully invoke the Presidential communications privilege for communications that occurred during his Presidency even if the current President does not support the privilege claim.
Found on CNN 8 months ago
The NCAA’s business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America.
Found on FOX News 9 months ago
I will not criticize the political branches, after all, they speak for the people, and that commands a certain degree of humility from those of us in the judicial branch, who do not.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Equal justice under law requires a criminal trial free of racial discrimination in the jury selection process.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
In sum, this court's stay in Murphy's case was appropriate, and the stay facilitated a prompt fix to the religious equality problem in Texas' execution protocol.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
That is why we have antitrust law, the case challenged the fact that Apple charges a high commission to app developers, which indirectly harms consumers, Supreme Court held that because consumers interface directly with Apple they could sue.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
As we all know, in the United States political system of the early 2000s, what goes around comes around.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Chief Justice Roberts is a principled, independent and inspiring leader for the American judiciary, as a country, we are fortunate to have John Roberts as chief justice of the United States.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Congress knew it wouldn't be immediate, and yet Congress did not put in a time limit, that raises a real question for me whether we should be superimposing a time limit into the statute when Congress, at least as I read it, did not itself do so.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Senate confirmation process was contentious and emotional, the Senate confirmation process is over. My focus now is to be the best justice I can be.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit, fueled with apparent pent-up anger about President President Donald Trump and the 2016 election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record, revenge on behalf of the Clintons and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Crazy stuff. Gangs, illegitimate children, fights on boats in Rhode Island, all nonsense, reported breathlessly and often uncritically by the media.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
But when individuals provide fabricated allegations to The Senate Judiciary Committee, diverting The Senate Judiciary Committee resources during time-sensitive investigations, The Senate Judiciary Committee materially impedes our work.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I was not in Newport, haven't been on a boat in Newport. Not with Mark Judge on a boat, nor all those three things combined. This is just completely made up, or at least not me.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit, fueled with apparent pent-up anger about President Trump and the 2016 election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record, revenge on behalf of the Clintons and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Throughout this process, I’ve been interviewed by the FBI, I’ve done a number of' background' calls directly with the The Senate, and yesterday, I answered questions under oath about every topic the senators and their counsel asked me, i’ve done everything they have requested and will continue to cooperate.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This confirmation process has become a national disgrace, yes ! Yes !
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Sorry I did that, this is a tough process. I'm sorry about that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
For 12 years, everyone who has appeared before me on the D.C. Circuit has praised my judicial temperament, that's why I have the unanimous, well qualified rating from The American Bar Association.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
No, and we're dealing with an anonymous letter about an anonymous person and an anonymous friend, it's ridiculous. Total Twilight Zone. And no, I've never done anything like that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
, } Accusers do not tend to fare well in word-on-word clashes. As I have described, skepticism of sexual violence complaints has shape-shifted over time. Yet it remains firmly lodged. The staying power of credibility discounting is a notable feature — perhaps even the dominant feature — of our response to rape.This may be changing. The #MeToo movement is challenging a societal default to doubt, and the past year has brought undeniable progress. Yet even as sexual misconduct complaints are met with newfound receptivity, it is worth noting that lone accusers continue to bear a special burden. ( It seems unlikely that Senate Republicans will ask the FBI to investigate two other accusers' reports against Brett Kavanaugh, or even that they will be asked to testify before Senate Judiciary Committee.) Many survivors of sexual violence are deterred by the likelihood of a swearing contest. But Ford — in the face of death threats — has agreed to appear before Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate Republicans walks into a.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What I’ve been accused of is far more serious than juvenile misbehavior, i never did anything remotely resembling what Christine Blasey Ford describes.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I am here this morning to answer these allegations and to tell the truth, and the truth is that I have never sexually assaulted anyone – not in high school, not in college, not ever.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I did not have sexual intercourse or anything close to sexual intercourse in high school or for many years thereafter.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I want a fair process where I can defend my integrity. I know I'm telling the truth. I know my lifelong record. I'm not going to let false accusations drive me out of this process, i have faith in God and I have faith in the fairness of the American people.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The truth is I've never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or otherwise.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Fox News earlier's totally false and outrageous, i have never done any such thing, known about any such thing. When I was in high school, and I went to an all-boys Catholic high school where I was focused on academics and athletics and going to church every Sunday at Little Flower and working on my service projects and friendships.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think Brett Kavanaugh would flash Brett Kavanaugh to Debbie, or anyone, for that matter.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm going to concentrate in the next three days, today, Thursday and Friday, as long as I can, we've got to have time to plan for a hearing and it's going to come off -- there's a certain time we have to notify people that there is going to be a hearing.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I have never done anything like what the accuser describes – to her or to anyone, because this never happened, I had no idea who was making this accusation until she identified herself yesterday.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Over the years, we have sunk a decent amount of money into our home for sometimes unanticipated repairs and improvements.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Everyone in the group paid me for their tickets based on the cost of the tickets, to the dollar, no one overpaid or underpaid me for tickets. No loans were given in either direction.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That was a group that was being forced to provide certain kind of health coverage over their religious objection to their employees, and under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the question was first, was this a substantial burden on the religious exercise ? And Religious Freedom Restoration Act seemed to me quite clearly Religious Freedom Restoration Act was.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We would usually divide the tickets in a ‘ticket draft’ at my house. Everyone in the group paid me for their tickets based on the cost of the tickets, to the dollar. No one overpaid or underpaid me for tickets. No loans were given in either direction.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I know nominees who've sat in this chair in the past have expressed the desire for cameras in the courtroom, only to get to the Supreme Court and change their positions fairly rapidly, so that gives me some humility about making confident assertions about that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That was a group that was being forced to provide certain kind of health coverage over their religious objection to their employees. And under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the question was first, was this a substantial burden on the religious exercise ? And Religious Freedom Restoration Act seemed to me quite clearly Religious Freedom Restoration Act was, religious Freedom Restoration Act was a technical matter of filling out a form in that case.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't recall any conversations of that kind with anyone at that law firm, i haven't had any inappropriate conversations about that investigation with anyone.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Did you find it all unusual to receive a draft letter from Democratic senators to each other before any mention of it was made public?
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I am not here to assess comments made in the political arena, because the risk is I'll be drawn into the political arena.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The question of self pardons is something I have never analyzed, it is a question I have not written about, it's a question therefore that is a hypothetical question that I can not begin to answer in this context as a sitting judge and as a nominee to Supreme Court.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think we want judges commenting on the latest political controversy, because that would ultimately lead the people to doubt whether we're independent or whether we're politicians in robes, and so maintaining that strict independence of the judiciary requires me, I think, to avoid commenting on any current events.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't live in a bubble. I understand. I live in the real world. I understand the importance of the issue.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
As I’ve said before, [Garland is] a great judge – a great chief judge – and he’s very careful and very hardworking, and we work well together and try to read the statute as written, read the precedent as written, he’s a judge – like I try to be as well – a judge who’s not trying to impose any personal preferences onto the decision but take the law as written, and that’s what I’ve tried to do in those cases and that probably explains some of that.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The Supreme Court must never be viewed as a partisan institution, the justices on the Supreme Court do not sit on opposite sides of an aisle. They do not caucus in separate rooms. If confirmed to the court, I would be part of a team of nine, committed to deciding cases according to the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
A good judge must be an umpire – a neutral and impartial arbiter who favors no litigant or policy, i don’t decide cases based on personal or policy preferences. I am not a pro-plaintiff or pro-defendant judge. I am not a pro-prosecution or pro-defense judge. I am a pro-law judge.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The next morning, I was a few steps behind her as the Secret Service shouted at all of us to sprint out the front gates of the White House, because there was an inbound plane.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Senator, I did not -- I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants or -- and so I do not have the involvement with that, and with respect to Mr. Haynes' nomination, I've -- I know Jim Haynes, but it was not one of the nominations that I handled.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
President Trump's decision to step in at the last moment and hide 100,000 pages of Judge Kavanaugh records from the American public is not only unprecedented in the history of Supreme Court nominations, it has all the makings of a cover up.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The rationale for candidate contribution limits is that they prevent corruption -- if Brett Kavanaugh were to oppose contribution limits, Brett Kavanaugh would be willing to open the door to massive corruption of our elected officials.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In our constitutional system, a judge must be independent, must keep an open mind in every case and must decide cases based on the facts and the law, not based on personal or policy views.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Looking back to the late 1990s, for example, the nation certainly would have been better off if President Clinton could have focused on Osama bin Laden without being distracted by the Paula Jones sexual harassment case and its criminal investigation offshoots.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Even the lesser burdens of a criminal investigation – including preparing for questioning by criminal investigators – are time-consuming and distracting. Like civil suits, criminal investigations take the President’s focus away from his or Paula Jones responsibilities to the people, and a President who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as President.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
My law clerks come from diverse background and points of views.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
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