"The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution."

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Source : Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 1985.

Byron White

#Law Quotes #Roots Quotes #Judging Quotes

“I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.”
“I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.”
“I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were”
“Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th.”
“Flowers that bloom in the winter may not survive till spring.”

Source : FaceBook post by K.Hari Kumar from Dec 20, 2013
“Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?”
“The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.”
“Were you to realize the forms minute and glorious, which invisibly play their parts in service around you, there could be no monotony - only a divine rapture of gratitude for such ministry.”

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