Courts & Supreme Court
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- If Trayvon Martin had been born white he would be alive today. That has been established beyond all reasonable doubt. If he had been white, he never would have been stalked by Zimmerman, there would have been no fight, no funeral, no trial, no verdict. It is the Zimmerman mindset that must be found guilty - far more than the man himself. It is a mindset that views black men and boys as nothing but a threat, good for nothing, up to no good no matter who they are or what they are doing. It is the Zimmerman mindset that has birthed a penal system unprecedented in world history, and relegated millions to a permanent undercaste.
- The justices are human — and the more we let them be human, the better job they will do.
- Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.
- They just don’t make great movie lines the way they used to. They also don’t make great Supreme Court passages the way they used to.
- I, like most justices, would probably have lived a happier life if I had never been appointed to the Court, but that in time I’d come to find a value in being there that was at least worth everything the Court took from me in return.
- Isolated justices make isolated decisions.
- They just don't make great movie lines the way they used to. They also don't make great Supreme Court passages the way they used to.
- I, like most justices, would probably have lived a happier life if I had never been appointed to the Court, but that in time I'd come to find a value in being there that was at least worth everything the Court took from me in return.