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And, it is, of course, my intent to follow this guidance in the future.
Found on CNN 5 months ago
I've heard similar arguments in favor of segregation, too.
Found on FOX News 11 months ago
I cannot think of another area of another case where the court deferred to the alleged discriminator on something as important as compelling interest.
Found on FOX News 11 months ago
Let's say that I'm both a Prince fan, which I was in the'80s ….
Found on FOX News 11 months ago
Look where we are, where now that trust or that belief is gone forever, when you lose that trust, especially in the institution that I’m in, it changes the institution fundamentally. You begin to look over your shoulder. It’s like, kind of an infidelity that you can explain ... but you can’t undo it.
Found on FOX News 12 months ago
I mean you trusted each other, you laughed together, you went to lunch together every day and I can only hope you can keep it.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
When Many Republicans look at the House vote and Many Republicans look at just the shifting sentiment about this issue, i think this is an issue that many Americans, regardless of political affiliation, feel has been resolved.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Justice Thomas is never interested in defending his reputation or himself, ultimately, [he] agreed to be interviewed.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Justice Thomas waited until page 62 to point out that the Second Amendment isn't a second-class right – And over on CNN, I was amazed and amused to watch legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin throw a hissy fit as if that's some new and novel concept.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Justice Alito asks why I have begun my opinion by reviewing some of the dangers and challenges posed by gun violence.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are not going to stop what we are doing to share the information that we've gotten so far with the Department of Justice. We have to do our work.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I do think what happened at the court is tremendously bad, i wonder how long we're going to have these institutions at the rate we're undermining them, and then I wonder when they're gone or they are destabilized, what we'll have as a country -- and I don't think that the prospects are good if we continue to lose them.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The institution that I'm a part of, if someone said that one line of one opinion would be leaked by anyone, you'd say,' Oh, that's impossible. No one would ever do that.' There is such a belief in the rule of law, a belief in Supreme Court, a belief in what we were doing that Supreme Court was verboten, it was beyond anyone's understanding, or at least anyone's imagination, that someone would do that.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We use stare decisis as a mantra when we don't want to think.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think we should be careful destroying our institutions because they don't give us what we want when we want.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Some of this seems a little bit counterintuitive and I admit to being a little bit wrapped around the axle.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is a circus, it's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint as a Black American, as far as I am concerned, it's a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Like so many married couples, we share many of the same ideals, principles, and aspirations for America, but we have our own separate careers, and our own ideas and opinions too.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
But it turned out that through all of that, ultimately the biggest impediment was the modern-day liberal, they were the ones who would discount all those things because they have one issue or because they have the power to caricature you.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint as a Black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks, who in any way deign to think for themselves, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured, by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There's been some talk... that the vaccinations are efficacious in preventing some degree of infection to others.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think the media makes it sound as though you are just always going right to your personal preference, so if they think you are anti-abortion or something personally, they think that’s the way you always will come out. They think you’re for this or for that. They think you become like a politician. That’s a problem. You’re going to jeopardize any faith in the legal institutions.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
As a black American, as far as Im concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves... and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you -- you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Theres different sets of rules for different people, if you criticize a black person whos more liberal, youre a racist whereas if you can do whatever to me -- or now, Ben Carson -- and thats fine because youre not really black because youre not doing what we expect black people to do.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
People can say things about you and for you that have nothing to do with you, i enjoy being here, I enjoy my work.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
, } The woman, we all know, was Anita Hill. And I was there as her story unfolded. Twenty-seven years ago, on Yom Kippur eve, I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in my role as President of the Women's Legal Defense Fund, which became National Partnership for Women Families for Women Families. I was joined by wonderful colleagues, including Professor Patricia King of Georgetown University and Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women's Law Center. At the time I testified that Judge Clarence Thomas appeared to lack a demonstrated commitment to equal justice. I stated that Judge Clarence Thomas record cast grave doubt on Judge Clarence Thomas commitment to affirm and support fundamental principles of equal employment opportunity, the constitutional protections against gender discrimination and reproductive freedom. Judge Clarence Thomas record had shown an extensive pattern of disregard of principles of fundamental importance to women and Women Families. The ugly double standard over Kavanaughs so-called youthRead MoreOf course, the parallels between then and now are unmistakable. Shortly after my testimony, Hill's story was leaked to the press, and Anita Hill was asked to testify before the Senate. What happened next continues to be one of the most disgraceful episodes in our country's modern history. Anita Hill came before the Senate and was greeted by an all-male panel, led by Republicans who sought to prosecute Anita Hill, while Democrats, at best, remained neutral fact-finders. This phony trial resulted in a gross imbalance of power and meant that no one defended Anita Hill and no one prosecuted Judge Clarence Thomas. What was on trial was not the fitness of Judge Clarence Thomas to be the next Supreme Court justice but instead Hill's moral character and reputation as a woman. Immediately after the hearing, it was branded as a.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don’t think the process is what it ought to be, i think that these are serious jobs, and they should be serious. I don’t think they should become spectacles.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
But as long as we're looking at our interests, or scoring points, or looking cute, or being on TV.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Honorable -- if we could use that word about more people who are in public life, people who actually ask the questions at confirmation hearings, instead of' Spartacus,'.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If we could use the word honorable more often, think about the difference it'll make, then, you'll have a legacy. We will have left the country in better shape, morally, structurally than we found it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
But, as a result of the mismatching, many blacks and Hispanics who likely would have excelled at less elite schools are placed in a position where underperformance is all but inevitable because they are less academically prepared than the white and Asian students with whom they must compete.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Under our precedents, that is all that is needed for citizens to have a right under the Second Amendment to keep such weapons.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
In this case, the Court refuses even to grant a temporary stay when it will resolve the issue at hand in several months, i would have shown the people of Alabama the respect they deserve and preserved the status quo while the Court resolves this important Constitutional question.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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