Legal Challenge Quotes

These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

I think you have to be concerned about any presidential executive order because it has the power of law until it's knocked down by an act of Congress or a court.

An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself

In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.

Well the appeals happening because we believe the certification process uh, hasn't worked out the way it should, that there hasn't been substantial evidence to support their certification.

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

No matter how many lawyers and lawsuits Obama throws at Arizona, we will have the American people and the Constitution on our side.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

If the court case I brought against the government over article 50 was about anything at all, it was about parliamentary sovereignty.

Each new lawsuit seeks to expand the size of the 'religion-free zone' in the public square.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.

We conclude that both challenged aspects of EPA's regulations implementing the 2008 ozone standards exceed the agency's authority under the Clean Air Act... Because we find that the EPA's challenged implementation rules exceed the agency's authority under the Clean Air Act, we vacate the pertinent portions of EPA's regulations.

unconstitutional, unnecessary, extrajudicial

Judicial review has developed since the 1970s as a way for individuals to challenge decisions taken by the State.

I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a chance to see these issues determined by open courts. Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans' rights. It is the first of many.

Our religious liberty was threatened by the Obama administration as part of the Obamacare law. I was in the courtroom when that law was, I think unjustly, held constitutional.

If I didn't want to fight Carl Froch then I wouldn't have invested so much time and money into appealing with the IBF over the dubious outcome of the first fight.

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.

It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite period of time? that the individual have a meaningful opportunity to challenge the legality of their detention and challenge whether they are being wrongfully detained.

If a journalist comes to you with a great story, one of the first questions you ask is how did you get it. How you got it is relevant to judging its accuracy and preparing yourself for any legal challenge.

Candidly, Justice Thomas, I do not believe that you were indeed the most competent person to be on the Supreme Court.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.