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“In public at least, Roberts himself purports to have a different view of the Court than his conservative sponsors. "Judges are like umpires," he said at his confirmation hearing. "Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them." Elsewhere, Roberts has often said, "Judges are not politicians." None of this is true. Supreme Court justices are nothing at all like baseball umpires. It is folly to pretend that the awesome work of interpreting the Constitution, and thus defining the rights and obligations of American citizenship, is akin to performing the rote […] task of calling balls and strikes. When it comes to the core of the Court's work, determining the contemporary meaning of the Constitution, it is ideology, not craft or skill, that controls the outcome of cases.”

Book:The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

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Jeffrey Toobin

Jeffrey Toobin is an American lawyer and author known for his in-depth reporting and analysis on the legal and judicial systems. He graduated from Yale University and earned a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School. Toobin served as a legal columnist for The New Yorker magazine and has written best-selling books such as 'The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court'. more

“Random chance—a freakishly close vote in the single decisive state—gave the Supreme Court the chance to resolve the 2000 presidential election. The character of the justices themselves turned that opportunity into one of the lowest moments in the Court's history. The struggle following the election of 2000 took thirty-six days, and the Court was directly involved for twenty-one of them. Yet over this brief period, the justices displayed all of their worst traits—among them vanity, overconfidence, impatience, arrogance, and simple political partisanship. These three weeks taint an otherwise largely admirable legacy. The justices did almost everything wrong. They embarrassed themselves and the Supreme Court.”

Supreme Court 2007 2000 Bush V Gore To The Brink

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“We had to do something [in Bush v. Gore], because countries were laughing at us. France was laughing at us.”

Supreme Court Ridicule 2007 2000 Bush V Gore Francophobia

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“أفكاري تتتئسر جوه ضلوعي أفراحي تموت تحت دموعي أقلامي تتكسر ويا طموحي أوراقي تتحرق وسط شموعي كلامي يتنطق رغم سكوتي أحس إن أنا فرحان إزاي ؟! والجرح يا هوه ، يا موتي هربان وجبان ولا أنا للفرح جعان مش عارف، مش حاسس، مش قادر أكون أنا الإنسان ناسي وحوش أموالي قروش طموحاتي فشوش صهيون بيخون حياتنا تهون لو نقدر نتحرر بيها أرضي بتتاخد مدرستي معايا بتتعاهد متسبنيش .... ما تبعنيش وأنا مش قادر ليها أخون مش عارف عنها أزود مش قادر لحدودها أصون مش قادر لتلاميذها أكون حامي ،رادع، عنهم مدافع ويا إخواتي ،وسط حياتي، مع أحفادي ضد الصهيون لو يجتمعوا ، لوا يفتكروا يوم كان بينا صلاح الدين ليه نتهان ،ليه نتباع ليه نستناهم راجعين ليه ما نكونش أسود قادرين ليه ما نكونش وحوش عارفين إن القوة ويا الحكمة ولو وسط الضلمة ضد الظلم تحقق عدل تولد نور ليه ما أكونش صلاح الدين ليه ما تكونش بطل حطين ليه ما نكونش أسود قادرين ليه مانكونش عرب متحدين ، منتصرين وسط ولادنا وجوه بلادنا نصبح نمسي للراس رافعين”

2007

Author:عمر حسني

“There were two kinds of cases before the Supreme Court. There were abortion cases—and there were all the others. Abortion was (and is) the central legal issue before the Court. It defined the judicial philosophies of the justices. It dominated the nomination and confirmation process. It nearly delineated the difference between the national Democratic and Republican parties.”