High Court Quotes

My father was a rags-to-riches businessman who came over in the Sixties with no money. On my mother's side, I am the grandson of a High Court judge and celebrated intelligence officer, so it's quite an unusual combination.

The core constituency that Republicans must satisfy in high court nominations is the party's social conservative base, which fundamentally cares about issues, not diversity, and has accepted white men who practice the judging it admires.

The Supreme Court is very capable of acting quickly when it needs to.

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

As head of the Karnataka government, it's my responsibility to implement the judgements and directions of the High Court.

Hell is full of high court judges.

The Supreme Court is an ideal legislature for the intelligentsia.

Anyone who has followed my work knows that I'm an advocate of reducing the power of the High Court of Justice, according to the principle of separation of powers.

I think people just find it remarkable that a high court justice would step out from behind the bench and have a persona that's not the traditional, stodgy, fuddy-duddy persona, but actually comes across as authentic and engaging.

They say they impeached me for taking my own money. I impeach the criminal conspirators, these looters and grafters, for stealing the taxpayers' money. That is what I never did .... My day will come again. From (Tammany Hall boss Michael C. Murphy's High Court of Infamy--the New York legislature--I appeal to the higher court—the court of public opinion. Let those who have failed take courage; Tho' the enemy seems to have won, Tho' his ranks be strong, if he be in the wrong, The battle is not yet done; For sure as the morning follows The darkest hour of night, No question is ever settled Until it is settled right. Posterity will do me justice. Time sets all things right.

I've asked Justice Clarence Thomas to administer the Oath of Office, which I'm incredibly honored that he accepted as he's in his 25th year on the Supreme Court and has developed an extraordinary judicial record.

It gives a new meaning to the expression, "High Court.

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'

I am deeply honored to have been nominated for a position on the Supreme Court. And I an humbled to have been nominated for the seat that is now held by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Should the high court be able to roll back state health regulations whose efficacy was at least debatable? If your answer is yes, logical consistency should encourage you to apply this same logic to the court's consideration of state-level gun control.

Gorsuch showed his true colors to the LGBTQ community when, in one of his first dissenting opinions on the high court, he advocated limiting the reach of the landmark 2015 marriage equality ruling by denying certain parenting rights to same-sex couples.

How an individual's reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is institutionally mismatched to the evolving intricacies of the online world.

In the past, there were groups which felt that the High Court didn't represent them.

It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and I have been the targets of death threats from the ‘irrational fringe’ of society, people apparently spurred by Republican criticism of the high court

One cannot tell the High Court what to adjudicate. They must judge, and then the legislature must act accordingly.

My brother was a radio jockey while I was studying law. I have assisted a lawyer at the High Court. But I decided to give it up. I cleared auditions for radio jockey in the first go, and within a week, I was on air.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor brought critical qualities to the high court that not everybody thinks are qualities - I happen to think they are - her pragmatism and her state craft.

The House of Commons has the undoubted rights to expel members for misconduct. This is an absolute authority which cannot be challenged in any court, as it derives from the twin concept of the High Court of Parliament being the most senior court in the land and of each House's right to regulate its own affairs.