Judges & Justices

The people of America look around this political system and think that all this money chasing all these political candidates is a nightmare.

If you collapse at the end of this, you've lived a noble life.

But rhetoric is a different story.

It’s offensive,” he said. “I honestly try to decide every single case on the merits, every single application on the merit.

It feels to me like the defendants ... are bringing it back to federal court before the state courts have really had a chance to sort out who is the source, what is their allegation with respect to how this causation is happening.

The example of the casinos, I thought, was telling, and the governor of Nevada at that time said the casinos are open.

One of the things that, unfortunately, it disclosed was that many people were willing to downgrade certain constitutional rights: the right to freedom of speech and the right to the free exercise of religion.

I think it was a stress test of our constitutional rights.

And I think it’s a danger for the courts.

We didn’t know it when we produced the draft that was leaked, but it required courage to go ahead with that because of the implications.

The physical threats and the harassment represents something new in our society and something that is quite disturbing … And I think it’s a danger to the courts, and I think it’s a danger to others in public life.

The harm caused by burdening or disenfranchising even a few lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent harm that the Government experiences when it is prevented from taking an action that it likely lacks the authority to take.

Significant real-world harms can follow Supreme Court stay rulings, and when the court’s orders do not acknowledge that reality, they seem oblivious and ring hollow,

Why is it that one party should get a fast pass to the Supreme Court of the United States, when so many other parties are queued up, waiting patiently for the court’s attention?

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.