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In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails.

Time Character Experience Integrity

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

John Henrik Clarke

Hope Decision School Feelings

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.

Humility Blessings Universe Us

It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent.

Mitch McConnell

Justice Right Act President

The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice.

Mitch McConnell

People Justice Voice American

The country is yearning for a change. I'd rather take my chances on somebody new, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court.

Mitch McConnell

Change Country New Somebody

President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them.

Mitch McConnell

Two President Against Supreme Court

The Frist fairness rule guarantees up-or-down votes for every circuit court or Supreme Court nomination, regardless of which party controls the Senate or the White House.

Mitch McConnell

White House Party Fairness

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

Joseph de Maistre

Action Free Things Being

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

Death Execution Concentration Court

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

People Think Authority Right

To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.

You Play Where Carry

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

You Free Belief Made

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

You Suffering Joy Completion

Born in poverty, he will take supreme power. He will bankrupt the country. Raising an army in the Milanese marches, he will drain Faenza and Florence of gold and people.

Power People Poverty Army

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

William Howard Taft

Go Forever Come And Go Come Court

The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.

Brett Kavanaugh

Constitution Separation Last Rights

Justice Kennedy devoted his career to securing liberty. I am deeply honored to be nominated to fill his seat on the Supreme Court.

Brett Kavanaugh

I Am Justice Liberty Career

If confirmed by the Senate to serve on the Supreme Court, I will keep an open mind in every case and always strive to preserve the Constitution of the United States and the American rule of law.

Brett Kavanaugh

Constitution Mind Law Will

If confirmed to the D.C. Circuit, I would follow Roe v. Wade faithfully and fully. That would be binding precedent of the court. It's been decided by the Supreme Court.

Brett Kavanaugh

Follow Court Supreme Court Been

The Supreme Court must never be viewed as a partisan institution.

Brett Kavanaugh

Never Court Institution Supreme Court

I am the leading federal judge in the country - the leader in the entire country of promoting women law clerks to get Supreme Court clerkships.

Brett Kavanaugh

Women I Am Law Judge

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

Life Politics Money You

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

Marlene Dietrich

Crazy Being He Supreme Being

Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.

Nobody Street Politicians Now

Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.

Benjamin E. Mays

Communication People Broken Decision

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