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"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."
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"I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court."
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"Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court."
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"Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court."
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"The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court."
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"Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day."
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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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"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."
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"The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline.""
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"The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech."
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"I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence."
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"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."
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"It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know."
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"The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them."
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"It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this."
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"When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory."
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"I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York."
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"I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same."
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"This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent."
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"So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are."
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"CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent."
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