Sibel Edmonds Quotes

This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are going to serve for decades.

Stare decisis is usually the wise policy, because in most matters it is more important that the applicable rule of law be settled than that it be settled right. ... But in cases involving the Federal Constitution, where correction through legislative action is practically impossible, this Court has often overruled its earlier decisions. ... This is strikingly true of cases under the due process clause.

We shall take the Scopes case to the United States Supreme Court if necessary to establish that a teacher may tell the truth without being thrown in jail.

Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases.

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.

The Supreme Court is a menace to the welfare of the nation.

It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the recent decision of the Supreme Court. The grounds and methods of that decision we have exposed elsewhere; and we now turn from them to contemplate the great fact which it establishes -- the fact that Slavery is National; and that, until that remote period when different Judges, sitting in this same Court, shall reverse this wicked and false judgment, the Constitution of the United States is nothing better than the bulwark of inhumanity and oppression.

There is no major political issue in the country that does not end up as a legal issue.

The States have always borne primary responsibility for operating the machinery of criminal justice within their borders, and adapting it to their peculiar circumstances.

Upholding ... suspicionless drug testing would set a dangerous precedent.

Such a trial is not only unlawful but is a gross blunder in policy. It denies the great, fundamental principle, that ours is a government of Law, and that the law is strong enough to rule the people wisely and well.

The Court had better be right in its capital punishment cases and perhaps it not always is.

A large part of our cultural confusion lies with the Supreme Court.

An investigation in which the processes of law-making and law-evaluating are submerged entirely in exposure of individual behavior—in adjudication, of a sort, through the exposure process—is outside the constitutional pale of congressional inquiry.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, will be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

If the people desire changes in the highest judicial tribunal in the land, the people can speak with their power to amend their own Constitution.

The lawyers want to govern us by the common law of England. Trust me for it, common sense is a much safer guide for us.

[America] is so awash in rights that we are virtually unable to pass legislation reflecting traditional religious and moral views. Moral relativism will then be the rule, at law; and what is true at law will shape what is practiced.

A dissent in a court of last resort is an appeal to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of a future day when a later decision may possibly correct the error …

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

We cannot say that we love the rule of law and reject arguments that appeal to the rule of law as technicalities and hair splitting.

I was tempted to raise this issue in the Senate several weeks ago, but I decided that I would get more attention if I could get it printed in the papers.

There are judges who stretch the law...to suit reactionary attitudes.

The ancient mode of trial by jury ... ought to remain sacred and inviolable.

It’s a jolt to the legal system when a previous decision is overruled.