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“The Court should never be influenced by the weather of the day but inevitably they will be influenced by the climate of the era.”

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Paul A. Freund

Paul A. Freund was a significant figure in the American legal and political landscape of the 20th century. His career spanned legal education, legal practice, and public affairs. more

“There are just a host of problems born by the electronic age. Things we couldn't even conceive of. I was amused by the analogy that Justice Scalia made in a case about a GPS tracker so you don't know that's being done to your car, is that a violation of your right to protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. So Justice Scalia imagines a constable clinging to the bottom of a carriage as it went on its way, so there was some notion that this similar: there is an official eye that's on you, but you don't know about it. Yes, there are all kinds of challenges.”

“Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.”

Thinking Way Mean Persons Happens Courses Process Natural Doctors Asking Patient Ill Determine Gods Will Interfere Interference Playing God

Author:Jack Kevorkian

“As De Tocqueville said, sooner or later in the United States, every controversy ends up in court. I think that's a great - says great things about our judicial system.”

Thinking Said Ends States United United States Court Great Things Sooner Or Later Controversy Judicial Judicial System

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.”

Persons Would Be Law Results Willing Welcome Aliens Shore Protected Exploitation

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say we want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.”

People Ifs Knows Want Has Beens Opportunity Given Pay Happened Ought Taxes Track Citizenship Prey Employers Salary Hardworking

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.”

Knows Long Judging Singers

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“My own view, and I've said this many times, is as long as I can do the work full steam, I will stay on the Court. But when I feel myself slipping, when I slow down in my ability to write opinions with fair dispatch, when I forget the names of cases that I once could recite at the drop of a hat, I will know it is time for me to go.”

Knows Feels Writing Long Said I Can Names Can Do My Own Ability Forget Views Opinion Cases Fairs Court Hats Slow Down Steam Slipping

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The Second Amendment has a preamble about the need for a militia. Because there is a need for a militia to be at the ready, therefore the right to keep and bear arms must be secured.”

Needs Ready Arms Bears Amendments Second Amendment Secured Militia Preamble

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states required men to have certain weapons and they specified in the law what weapons these people had to keep in their home so that when they were called to do service as militiamen, they would have them. That was the entire purpose of the Second Amendment.”

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Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.”

Function Amendments Obsolete Second Amendment Outdated

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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