usurping | The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.
Todd Akin
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Vera Brittain | I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
Vera Brittain |
verdict | A French court is to give its verdict in the trial of ex-PM Dominique de Villepin, accused of trying to smear Nicolas Sarkozy. |
verdict | The US calls on the UAE to review a court verdict clearing a member of its ruling family of torture charges. |
Victoria Abril | The director had come to Madrid to court me.
Victoria Abril |
Vince Carter | I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
Vince Carter |
Vincent Bugliosi | I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
Vincent Bugliosi |
Vincent Bugliosi | If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
Vincent Bugliosi |
Vincent Bugliosi | So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.
Vincent Bugliosi |
Vincent Bugliosi | The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.
Vincent Bugliosi |
Vincent Bugliosi | The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.
Vincent Bugliosi |
Vincent Bugliosi | The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.
Vincent Bugliosi |
Vincent Bugliosi | These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
Vincent Bugliosi |
Vincent Bugliosi | Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
Vincent Bugliosi |
Walter Lippmann | In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Walter Lippmann |
Walter Lippmann | The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann |
Walter Scott | Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Walter Scott |
Warren E. Burger | It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.
Warren E. Burger |
whether | A High Court judge is expected to decide later whether to allow British Airways an injunction against a planned 12-day strike. |
whole | For some minutes the whole court was in confusion, getting the Dormouse turned out, and, by the time they had settled down again, the cook had disappeared. |