There has been a sea change in the way Democrats view and talk about the Supreme Court. Democrats used to respectfully disagree with the justices. Now they call them illegitimate and corrupt, partisan and extreme.
In terms of having the American people look at the court and think of it as being fair and appropriate for our nation, it helps to have women, plural, on the court.
The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.
If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate.
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.
Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
The court has not attained the weight and dignity to enable it to serve the national government.
The Court's legitimacy arises from the source of its authority - which is, of course, the Constitution - and is best preserved by adhering to decision methods that neither expand nor contract but legitimize the power of judicial review.
