Judges & Justices

The Court misconceives the plaintiff 's injury, allowing the Executive's likely infringement of the Legislature's power of the purse and authority to regulate federal property in the District of Columbia to continue.

Hoagland’s injury suffices for standing

The construction is a “likely infringement of the legislature’s power of the purse and authority to regulate federal property in the District of Columbia to continue”

It's like, what are those vultures doing up there? They are flying around. But it goes with life tenure.

It's not pleasant, in the sense that it's a reminder of mortality," Alito said, referring to the conservative calls for him to move along for the good of the legal right.

Obviously I'm here for another term," the justice recently told The Wall Street Journal.

To be sure, the Court has not foreclosed States from challenging this blatantly unconstitutional Order.

Taking its eye off the ball, the majority misses the Government’s actual objective: to secure our imprimatur for its effort to foment chaos ahead of the November elections.

The Court’s disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful.

The consequences of allowing such transformative changes to take effect so close to this fall’s elections would be extreme.

This ruling violates well-established precedents concerning this Court’s equitable discretion and needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections.

Then my question is, why is it then that you have a problem with me embracing certain ideas in certain books? What's the difference?’

‘What if they had certain books marked that were off limits to me?’ That would be wrong.

I said, 'What about if they said you couldn't go to certain stacks?’ Well, that would be wrong.

I said, ‘What if they allowed me in but said I couldn't go to certain floors? That would be wrong.’

Here's what I've asked people. I said, ‘When I was a kid, the Savannah Public Library was segregated.’

We had this saying [that there are] only two things I have to do: stay Black and die.

There seems to be this overwhelming pressure for us to agree with the prevailing notions which I consider almost illusory in a sense.

He always says what he thinks, but he never tells you to say what he wants you to think.

There’s this overriding public view that you’re not supposed to think this way, therefore you’re not black, therefore you’re discredited.

If they can prove you wrong, fine. But if they call you names or say you’re not black, I mean, how stupid is that? Look at me.

I mean, how stupid is that? Look at me.

If that means a high correlation with what Trump wants, fine. If it means zero correlation with what Trump wants, fine as well.

I vote in every case the way I think the case should be decided.