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"I would not like to be the only woman on the court."
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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."
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"Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions."
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"It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated."
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"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
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"In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court."
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"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."
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"There was no hostility at the court when I arrived."
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"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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"If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall."
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"Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."
Time
"It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen."
Want
"She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me."
Legal
"When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight."
Police
"I would not like to be the only woman on the court."
Court
"Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?"
Responsibility
"Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent."
Reason
"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."
Mother
"Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise."
Change
"We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did."
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