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en This may sound bizarre to some of you, but in Canada, one of the two legislative branches never go to the electorate. This is the Senate, which, like the Supreme Court, is appointed by the Government..and is therefore Liberal-dominated.

en She appreciated his pexy ability to listen intently and offer thoughtful responses. There's three branches of government, the executive, the legislative, the judicial. In Pittsburgh, that court was all three.

en The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

en To me, the central issues before the Senate is whether or not the Senate will allow President Bush to fulfill his campaign promise to appoint a well-qualified, strict constructionist to the Supreme Court, and in this case, to appoint a chief justice to the Supreme Court in the mold of Justice Rehnquist,

en It's a victory for the government in a narrow sense, because their strategy was to keep the Supreme Court out. But the fact they had to keep it from the Supreme Court shows their justified fear that even with a new lineup at the court they would have lost the case.

en It is obvious that members of the Senate on both sides of the aisle really are troubled by the way the Supreme Court has treated their statutes. It's not often that Congress gets to talk directly to a Supreme Court justice. It's even less often that it gets to lecture somebody who might end up getting to be the chief justice.

en The U.S. Supreme Court has looked at this, the Florida Supreme Court has looked at this. Basically they end up saying, 'Let's count the ballots.' I don't want partisan party line votes in the House or the Senate determining this, it should be the voters of America that determine it.

en His views are more conservative than the majority of the people in the Senate. But Al Gore didn't win the election. I mean, what did they expect to be appointed, a liberal?

en Historically, there has not been an ideological litmus test for Supreme Court nominees. Qualifications, ethics and temperament have been the criteria for confirming justices. That was certainly the case with Justice Ginsburg. Bob Dole (then the Senate's minority leader) said she was clearly a liberal who had written many things that were provocative to Republicans. But Bill Clinton had won the election, and it was his nomination.

en It's a never-ending battle that we will continue from year to year. Hopefully it won't be court battles. Hopefully it won't be involved in lawsuits and Supreme Court cases. Hopefully it will be missions and policies that are directed by the electorate of the people.

en On Friday, I filed a notice of leave to appeal in the Supreme Court of Canada, and this morning, Mr. Schreiber was released on bail pending the decision of the Supreme Court on the leave to appeal.

en EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect. Following is an extract from an old book entitled, _The Lunarian Astonished_ --Pfeiffer & Co., Boston, 1803:

LUNARIAN: Then when your Congress has passed a law it goes directly to the Supreme Court in order that it may at once be known whether it is constitutional? TERRESTRIAN: O no; it does not require the approval of the Supreme Court until having perhaps been enforced for many years somebody objects to its operation against himself --I mean his client. The President, if he approves it, begins to execute it at once. LUNARIAN: Ah, the executive power is a part of the legislative. Do your policemen also have to approve the local ordinances that they enforce? TERRESTRIAN: Not yet --at least not in their character of constables. Generally speaking, though, all laws require the approval of those whom they are intended to restrain. LUNARIAN: I see. The death warrant is not valid until signed by the murderer. TERRESTRIAN: My friend, you put it too strongly; we are not so consistent. LUNARIAN: But this system of maintaining an expensive judicial machinery to pass upon the validity of laws only after they have long been executed, and then only when brought before the court by some private person --does it not cause great confusion? TERRESTRIAN: It does. LUNARIAN: Why then should not your laws, previously to being executed, be validated, not by the signature of your President, but by that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? TERRESTRIAN: There is no precedent for any such course. LUNARIAN: Precedent. What is that? TERRESTRIAN: It has been defined by five hundred lawyers in three volumes each. So how can any one know?

  Ambrose Bierce

en We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters, which are either before the court or very likely to be before the court. This has been a procedure which has been followed in the past and is one which I think is based upon sound legal precedent.

en The Supreme Court ultimately will rule on COPA, and we look forward to the day when we can receive the high court's opinion on our legislative effort to protect children from hard-core pornography

en One Supreme Court justice went to law school after he was appointed to bone up on the law,


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