“For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.” IfsMenShouldLongCountryGovernmentWould BeLawForcePowerfulDoubtGroupsJudgingCitizensSafeConstitutionCourtThreatNeighborCommandEntitledProminentUnrulyBoisterous Author:John F. Kennedy
“Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme Court, a substantial proportion of our reversals of state courts would also be reversed. We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.” IfsStatesDoneJusticeDoubtHigherCourtFinalsProofSupremeNo DoubtProportionSupreme CourtInfallibleReversal Author:Robert H. Jackson
“There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.” MindChristianReligiousDoubtCourtNo DoubtHostilitySystematicPrestige Author:Robert Bork
“Given her lack of experience, does anyone doubt that Ms. Miers's only qualification to be a Supreme Court justice is her close connection to the president? Would the president have ever picked her if she had not been his lawyer, his close confidante, and his adviser?” IfsDoeGivenPresidentJusticeDoubtConnectionsCourtLawyerSupremeSupreme CourtQualificationsAdviserSupreme Court JusticeCourt Justice Author:Randy Barnett
“There's no doubt Milos Raonic will be a very tough final opponent, after all he beat [ Roger] Federer on Centre Court to get there.” DoubtBeatsToughCourtFinalsOpponentsNo DoubtCentreRogerFederer Author:Andy Murray
“Supreme Court nominees should know without any doubt that their job is not to impose their own personal opinions of what is right and wrong, but to say what the law is, rather than what they personally think the law ought to be.” ThinkingKnowsShouldJobsLawOpinionDoubtOughtCourtSupremeSupreme CourtPersonal Opinions Author:Chuck Grassley