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All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.
mark kingwell— Chapter 4, Spaces And Dreams, p. 174
The conflict about the meaning of free speech went on through the 1920s, Holmes and Brandeis persisting in their view and expressing it in strongly worded dissents. In one sense it was a curious performance by the two of them, for each had a deep commitment to the Supreme Court as an institution and thought that division among the justices should be avoided when possible.
anthony lewis— Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment, Vintage (1992, pg. 82-83)
A justices tenir et à droitures soies loiaus et roides à tes sougiez, sans tourner à destre ne à senestre, mais adès à droit, et soustien la querelle dou povre jeusques à tant que la verités soit desclairie.
louis ix of france— In order to deal justly and equitably with your subjects, be straightforward and firm, turning neither to the right hand nor to the left, but always following what is just, and upholding the cause of the poor till the truth be made clear.
— Page 348. [3]
— To his successor Philippe.
A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.
— John Gay The Birth of the Squire. L 77.
I believe it is understood that though, when the Judges are unanimous, the Chief Justice delivers the opinion of the Court, yet the other justices are not presumed to adopt and concur with every doctrine that falls from him, in the course of that opinion.
— Douglas on Elections (ed. 1775), Introduction, p. 39.
Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) -- Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists -- but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf.
— Katha Pollitt, "Subject to Debate" column in The Nation (May 1, 2000)reprinted in 2001.
It is assented and accorded, for the good Governance of the Commons, that no Man be put to answer without Presentment before justices, or Matter of Record, or by due Process and Writ original, according to the old Law of the Land: And if any Thing from henceforth be done to the contrary, it shall be void in the Law, and holden for Error
— Observance of due Process of Law (1368).
Pur dishonest Judgm't Judges povent estre punv. Mirror de justices report que 44 fueront pendus pur cest cause : For dishonest judgment Judges may be punished. Mirror of justices reports that 44 were hanged for this cause.
— Vaughan, J., Bushel's Case (1670), Jones's (Sir Thos.) Rep. 15.
I think people are great in many different ways. So, I think some justices are great because they have extraordinary wisdom, they have an understanding of how to apply the law in their times … in a way that's completely consistent with … the text of the law and the purposes of the law, and in a way that's completely right for the times in which they live in.
elena kagan— Interview on C-SPAN (9 December 2010).
