It's been said. . .

“ (while) we would prefer the highest court in the land to speak with one voice in resolving the nation’s deepest disputes, it is better for five justices to hold to their constitutional duty to say what the law is than to have nine produce a lukewarm opinion that either splits the baby or, worse, legislates from the bench.”

Ilya Shapiro, Sr. Fellow at the Cato Institute, which sponsored the lawsuit the U.S. Supreme Court used to strike down the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns

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“We have very strong legal arguments to make at every level of the courts.”

Jennifer Hoyle, spokeswoman for the City of Chicago Law Dept., on the likelihood Chicago’s 1982 ordinance making it illegal to possess or sell handguns in the city will be challenged following the U.S. Supreme Court decision on the District of Columbia’s ban

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“I usually get up at 4 a.m. anyway, and I usually spend my days in jail meeting with clients. It wasn’t that different.”

Criminal defense lawyer Jonathon Schwartz of Miami, after being jailed two days for missing a trial; Schwartz said he hired someone to cover for him, but that person hired someone else who, in turn, hired a third “coverage” lawyer, who didn’t show up