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What do we mean when we say that first of all we seek liberty? I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it… What is this liberty that must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not the freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check on their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few -- as we have learned to our sorrow. What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias... – Learned Hand	added by Normando 4 months ago
When parties are able to choose their judges, it creates the perception that they are able to predetermine their case’s outcome, compromising the integrity of our federal justice system, activist plaintiffs should not be able to hand-select individual judges to set nationwide policy, which is why it’s critical we address the issue of judge shopping in our federal courts. – Mazie Hirono	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As a result of the Supreme Court’s stay, mifepristone remains available and approved for safe and effective use while we continue this fight in the courts. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As is common practice, the Supreme Court has decided to maintain the status quo, our case seeking to put women’s health above politics continues on an expedited basis in the lower courts. – Erik Baptist	Found on CNN 1 year ago
AI companies using copyrighted works to train their models to create similar works is exactly the type of behavior the copyright office and courts should explicitly ban. Original art is meant to be protected by law, not works created by machines that used the original art to create new work. – Karl Fowlkes	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The preliminary ruling by a federal judge in Texas is an assault on science and the FDA’s long-standing role as the authority to make decisions on the safety and efficacy of medicines. For a court to invalidate the approval of a drug that was reviewed and approved more than two decades ago is without precedent. As legal scholars have noted, the courts do not have the medical expertise to make these types of scientific determinations. – Rachel King	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I believe that the President Biden administration should ignore this ruling, what( the courts) are currently doing is engaged in an unprecedented and dramatic erosion of the legitimacy of the courts. – New York	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is unacceptable that the Supreme Court has exempted itself from the accountability that applies to all other members of our federal courts, and I believe Congress should act to remedy this problem. – Chris Van Hollen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We can develop mental health courts where they will be treated like they have illness and not like they are criminals and degenerates not worthy of dignity and respect, irvo deserved dignity and respect. – Ben Crump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Cities should not simply convert tennis courts to pickleball. If they do that without considering sound, they’re likely to have unhappy people. – Bob Unetich	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The bill would prevent a large group of extremely vulnerable refugees from relying on human rights protections, by leaving it up to the Home Secretary to decide who should be protected and who should be deported – and excluding the courts almost entirely, for example, victims of modern slavery will not be able to use laws designed to protect them. This attacks the core idea of human rights that everyone is protected, and that states must, under the ECHR, give people access to an effective remedy. – Adam Wagner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We agree with the chief of the Capitol Police and the wide range of bipartisan lawmakers who have condemned this false depiction of the unprecedented, violent attack on our Constitution and the rule of law – which cost police officers their lives, we also agree with what Fox News’s own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law: That Tucker Carlson is not credible. – White House	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I know the courts will do the right thing. The future of their children is involved. – Peter Obi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Although this is a very technical ruling, its basic gist is that state supreme courts can’t rely upon novel state procedural rules to prevent state prisoners from bringing federal constitutional claims, (John) Cruz may or may not prevail on his federal claim – that he had a right to have the jury know that a life sentence would be without parole. But he now gets to make that argument in the first place. – Steve Vladeck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I mean, we’re Supreme Courts. We really do n’t know about these things. Justice Clarence Thomas know, these are not like the nine greatest experts on the internet. – Elena Kagan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think the cost of solitary confinement is now being critically examined and rethought, and prison systems are beginning to ask themselves whether this is worth it, and whether or not it does not create more harm than good, courts are pushing them to consider the inhumanity of the practice, as well. – Craig Haney	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Once again, the courts have ruled that Donald Trump is not above the law. For years, he tried to stall and thwart our lawful investigation into his financial dealings, but today’s decision sends a clear message that there are consequences for abusing the legal system. We will not be bullied or dissuaded from pursuing justice. – New York	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People have to make choices about whether they come forward and where they go for help, and they’re not going to go to our courts, or reach out to law enforcement, or even perhaps reach out to community-based organizations, if they don’t think the risks that they’re living with will be taken seriously. – Julia Weber	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Courts would be overreaching, and it would shift a court from a judicial role – where it decides a specific dispute – to something more like a legislative role where it decides a question or an issue without a factual dispute between the parties. – Professor Samuel Bray	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Or( we saw) the police officer using Hertfordshire Police/AP status within the family courts to undermine her access to her own children. certainly if anyone’s a victim of a police officer, they’re going to be extremely fearful of coming forward. – Even Wistrich	Found on CNN 1 year ago
State courts have proven to be surprisingly fertile territory for this, courts in both Republican states and Democratic states have been willing to strike down maps from the party in charge. – Michael Li	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While we continue reviewing the final rule, since the rulemaking process was announced last year, NAWG has stressed that farmers need clarity regarding jurisdiction, recognize important agricultural water features, and more long-term certainty from the courts and administrations. – Chandler Goule	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Our country has a strong historical commitment to free and open debate and to protect the ability of those who dissent from the government’s view to express their own opinions. We have no doubt that courts will see this unconstitutional law for what it is and strike it down. – Jenin Younes	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Our state Legislature continues to try to destroy the initiative process with these kinds of laws, we've had success in the federal courts based on the First Amendment. – Rick Weiland	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

What do we mean when we say that first of all we seek liberty? I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it… What is this liberty that must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not the freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check on their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few -- as we have learned to our sorrow. What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias...

– Learned Hand

added by Normando
4 months ago

When parties are able to choose their judges, it creates the perception that they are able to predetermine their case’s outcome, compromising the integrity of our federal justice system, activist plaintiffs should not be able to hand-select individual judges to set nationwide policy, which is why it’s critical we address the issue of judge shopping in our federal courts.

– Mazie Hirono

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a result of the Supreme Court’s stay, mifepristone remains available and approved for safe and effective use while we continue this fight in the courts.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As is common practice, the Supreme Court has decided to maintain the status quo, our case seeking to put women’s health above politics continues on an expedited basis in the lower courts.

– Erik Baptist

Found on CNN
1 year ago

AI companies using copyrighted works to train their models to create similar works is exactly the type of behavior the copyright office and courts should explicitly ban. Original art is meant to be protected by law, not works created by machines that used the original art to create new work.

– Karl Fowlkes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The preliminary ruling by a federal judge in Texas is an assault on science and the FDA’s long-standing role as the authority to make decisions on the safety and efficacy of medicines. For a court to invalidate the approval of a drug that was reviewed and approved more than two decades ago is without precedent. As legal scholars have noted, the courts do not have the medical expertise to make these types of scientific determinations.

– Rachel King

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I believe that the President Biden administration should ignore this ruling, what( the courts) are currently doing is engaged in an unprecedented and dramatic erosion of the legitimacy of the courts.

– New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is unacceptable that the Supreme Court has exempted itself from the accountability that applies to all other members of our federal courts, and I believe Congress should act to remedy this problem.

– Chris Van Hollen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can develop mental health courts where they will be treated like they have illness and not like they are criminals and degenerates not worthy of dignity and respect, irvo deserved dignity and respect.

– Ben Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Cities should not simply convert tennis courts to pickleball. If they do that without considering sound, they’re likely to have unhappy people.

– Bob Unetich

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The bill would prevent a large group of extremely vulnerable refugees from relying on human rights protections, by leaving it up to the Home Secretary to decide who should be protected and who should be deported – and excluding the courts almost entirely, for example, victims of modern slavery will not be able to use laws designed to protect them. This attacks the core idea of human rights that everyone is protected, and that states must, under the ECHR, give people access to an effective remedy.

– Adam Wagner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We agree with the chief of the Capitol Police and the wide range of bipartisan lawmakers who have condemned this false depiction of the unprecedented, violent attack on our Constitution and the rule of law – which cost police officers their lives, we also agree with what Fox News’s own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law: That Tucker Carlson is not credible.

– White House

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I know the courts will do the right thing. The future of their children is involved.

– Peter Obi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Although this is a very technical ruling, its basic gist is that state supreme courts can’t rely upon novel state procedural rules to prevent state prisoners from bringing federal constitutional claims, (John) Cruz may or may not prevail on his federal claim – that he had a right to have the jury know that a life sentence would be without parole. But he now gets to make that argument in the first place.

– Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I mean, we’re Supreme Courts. We really do n’t know about these things. Justice Clarence Thomas know, these are not like the nine greatest experts on the internet.

– Elena Kagan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the cost of solitary confinement is now being critically examined and rethought, and prison systems are beginning to ask themselves whether this is worth it, and whether or not it does not create more harm than good, courts are pushing them to consider the inhumanity of the practice, as well.

– Craig Haney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Once again, the courts have ruled that Donald Trump is not above the law. For years, he tried to stall and thwart our lawful investigation into his financial dealings, but today’s decision sends a clear message that there are consequences for abusing the legal system. We will not be bullied or dissuaded from pursuing justice.

– New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People have to make choices about whether they come forward and where they go for help, and they’re not going to go to our courts, or reach out to law enforcement, or even perhaps reach out to community-based organizations, if they don’t think the risks that they’re living with will be taken seriously.

– Julia Weber

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Courts would be overreaching, and it would shift a court from a judicial role – where it decides a specific dispute – to something more like a legislative role where it decides a question or an issue without a factual dispute between the parties.

– Professor Samuel Bray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Or( we saw) the police officer using Hertfordshire Police/AP status within the family courts to undermine her access to her own children. certainly if anyone’s a victim of a police officer, they’re going to be extremely fearful of coming forward.

– Even Wistrich

Found on CNN
1 year ago

State courts have proven to be surprisingly fertile territory for this, courts in both Republican states and Democratic states have been willing to strike down maps from the party in charge.

– Michael Li

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While we continue reviewing the final rule, since the rulemaking process was announced last year, NAWG has stressed that farmers need clarity regarding jurisdiction, recognize important agricultural water features, and more long-term certainty from the courts and administrations.

– Chandler Goule

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our country has a strong historical commitment to free and open debate and to protect the ability of those who dissent from the government’s view to express their own opinions. We have no doubt that courts will see this unconstitutional law for what it is and strike it down.

– Jenin Younes

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our state Legislature continues to try to destroy the initiative process with these kinds of laws, we've had success in the federal courts based on the First Amendment.

– Rick Weiland

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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