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PATRICK LEAHY The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.
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JOHN ROBERTS the job of a Supreme Court justice ... is to make precedent.
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BILL REYNOLDS It is rather unlikely that memos signed by the deputy solicitor general will be crassly or even over...
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BOYDEN GRAY Justice Rehnquist went to the Supreme Court in 1972, at a time of ascendant judicial activism.
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DAVID ROGERS Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the...
MICHAEL REAGAN Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
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UNKNOWN The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that t...
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MICHAEL GREENBERGER The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.
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ERIC SCHAEFFER I'm sure a sitting Supreme Court justice believes that providing some final closure on all these leg...
LANNY DAVIS The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline."
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ Pretty much since statehood, we have kept a continuous record of what [the Supreme Court] did. We ha...
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ELI PARISER We have a Supreme Court justice who said, 'You all have been doing this for 23 years, when are you g...
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JAY ALAN SEKULOW A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
KARL MARX A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of communism.
KARL MARX A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have lost every respect for U.S. justice. The judgment by the Supreme Court and the other, even mo...
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CONRAD BLACK This no longer puts the abortion issue in the abstract with the Supreme Court. This is as live a con...
JAY SEKULOW It is inconsistent with what the Supreme Court did.
CARL LEVIN There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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BILL CARRICK Mother Superior jump the gun...
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LAUREN MYRACLE The smart money is that the Supreme Court granted this case to reverse.
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BILL SAUNDERS The wild card is how the Supreme Court will treat them.
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LIU RENWEN As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide just...
TED DEUTCH I was interested in politics very much when I was growing up, and that's what I think I really w...
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ARLEN SPECTER It is unfair to start the hearings before she's ready,
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ARLEN SPECTER It's inexcusable ... clearly and categorically wrong.
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