Attributions
The justices and their views will be exactly the same come June 2008. It is the cases that will be different.
Thomas Goldstein on his SCOTUS blog, predicting the new term of the Supreme court will disappoint conservatives because the liberal side may win some of the high profile cases selected for review
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• •For over 200 years, this nation has adhered to the rule of law – with unparalleled success. A shift to a nation based on extra-constitutional authority is prohibited, as well as ill-advised.
Federal judge Ann Aiken, ruling in an Oregon case that two provisions of the USA Patriot Act allowing secret -wiretaps and searches without a showing of probable cause are unconstitutional
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• •They all, after a while, begin to think they're indispensable. It's a court that exercises more power than it should, and the only way to restrict it is to restrict tenure.
Cornell University law professor Roger Cramton, arguing for a term limit of 18 years for U.S. Supreme Court justices
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• •People's eyes roll when you say to them, ‘Hi, I'm here to persuade you to invest in the rule of law,' (but) people do get the notion that what's fair is fair.
ABA president Bill Neukom, on his work this year on
The World Justice Project, reaching out to other disciplines with the message that no one is above the law