Michael Newdow Quotes

I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.

I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.

The Supreme Court of the United States, in a recent case, has, by a decision of seven to two of the Judges, established as law what our Southern statesmen have been repeating daily for many years on the floors of Congress, that the whole action of this Government on the subject of slavery, for more than a quarter of a century, from the initiation of the Missouri Restriction in 1822, to the California Compromise in 1850, has been all beyond the limits of the Constitution; was without justifiable authority; and that the whole mass should be now proclaimed null and void, and that slavery is guaranteed by the constitutional compact.

Were I confirmed as a judge, I would decide cases according to the rule of law beginning to end.

Today’s decision was a victory for people all across this country whose lives will be more secure.

As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, 'Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'

The Supreme Court has ruled that anybody can be strip-searched for any kind of arrest. That's something to think about the next time you bring 12 items into a 10-item-or-less lane.

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

It's been sanctioned by the courts, and I accept that.

My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not the only factor. If it was the only factor, then, you know, we wouldn't have had Roe vs. Wade. We wouldn't have had Griswold. We wouldn't have had Lawrence. We wouldn't have had all these cases which the Left love.

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

Their Lordships have come to the conclusion that the word "persons" … includes members both of the male and female sex, and that, therefore, the question propounded by the Governor General should be answered in the affirmative, and that women are eligible to be summoned to and become members of the Senate of Canada, and they will humbly advise His Majesty accordingly.

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

The majority opinions [of the Supreme Court] determined the cases but these dissenting opinions will determine the minds of the future.

Plessy v. Ferguson was a perversion of the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

The best way to have empathy for people and the best way to have empathy for our Constitution is to appoint judges who will rule based on the law and to have empathy, if you will, for the law only and to rule based on the law.

What secret knowledge, one must wonder, is breathed into lawyers when they become Justices of this Court that enables them to discern that a practice which the text of the Constitution does not clearly proscribe, and which our people have regarded as constitutional for 200 years, is in fact unconstitutional?

Courts are supposed to interpret laws to avoid 'absurd results' and to avoid constitutional problems - such as infringing on the free speech rights of Americans.

What many people, I think, don't really understand is how much their rights really turn on the interpretation of the Supreme Court.

We need more justices who will uphold the Constitution, follow the rule of law, and protect our Montana way of life.

I think that Roe v. Wade will ultimately be overturned. I think it'll fall of its own weight. It does not have any constitutional underpinnings.