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"In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked."
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"If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him."
"Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions."
"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
"In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court."
"When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it."
"The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases."
"Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has."
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"I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest."
"The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial."
"Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent."
"There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president."
"Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it."
"A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate."
"Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent."
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