Nomination of David H. Souter to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session ... September 13, 14, 17, 18, and 19, 1990 |
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... tion of David H. Souter to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court ......... Wednesday , September 19 , 1990 730 734 Witnesses Panel : Williams , Wesley S. , Jr. , Covington & Burling , Washington , DC .. 749 Beck , Robert L ...
... tion of David H. Souter to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court ......... Wednesday , September 19 , 1990 730 734 Witnesses Panel : Williams , Wesley S. , Jr. , Covington & Burling , Washington , DC .. 749 Beck , Robert L ...
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... tion , a judge is right to nullify the will of the people . But let us never forget that perhaps the most fundamental of those rights in the Constitution is the right of our people to democratic self - gov- ernment . As the second ...
... tion , a judge is right to nullify the will of the people . But let us never forget that perhaps the most fundamental of those rights in the Constitution is the right of our people to democratic self - gov- ernment . As the second ...
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... tion's role , and we all agreed that the ABA should limit itself to qualifications as opposed to the political question . But there was considerable opinion that the Senate had equal standing with the President . I am not prepared to go ...
... tion's role , and we all agreed that the ABA should limit itself to qualifications as opposed to the political question . But there was considerable opinion that the Senate had equal standing with the President . I am not prepared to go ...
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... tion was written , article I was meant for the Congress , article II for the executive branch , and article III for the Court . And I believe if the Constitution were to be rewritten today , article I would be for the Court . The Court ...
... tion was written , article I was meant for the Congress , article II for the executive branch , and article III for the Court . And I believe if the Constitution were to be rewritten today , article I would be for the Court . The Court ...
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... tion . We are being asked to give you enormous power . We want to know , in general , how you will exercise it . We want to know what you think about certain issues - abortion and privacy , civil and in- dividual rights , the balance of ...
... tion . We are being asked to give you enormous power . We want to know , in general , how you will exercise it . We want to know what you think about certain issues - abortion and privacy , civil and in- dividual rights , the balance of ...
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Page 94 - must be reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest upon some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation, so that all persons similarly circumstanced shall be treated alike.
Page 980 - If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.
Page 440 - ... (c) Every employer, employment agency, and labor organization subject to this title shall (1) make and keep such records relevant to the determinations of whether unlawful employment practices have been or are being committed, (2) preserve such records for such periods...
Page 630 - This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.
Page 609 - The Court's decisions recognizing a right of privacy also acknowledge that some state regulation in areas protected by that right is appropriate. As noted above, a state may properly assert important interests in safeguarding health, in maintaining medical standards, and in protecting potential life.
Page 632 - On the other hand, the appellee conceded on reargument that no case could be cited that holds that a fetus is a person within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Constitution does not define "person
Page 56 - National Mutual Ins. Co. v. Tidewater Transfer Co., 337 US 582, 646 (dissenting opinion). Several decisions of this Court make clear that freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life is one of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Page 611 - For the stage subsequent to viability, the State in promoting its interest in the potentiality of human life may, if it chooses, regulate, and even proscribe, abortion except where it is necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother.
Page 630 - As noted above, a state may properly assert important interests in safeguarding health, in maintaining medical standards, and in protecting potential life. At some point in pregnancy, these respective interests become sufficiently compelling to sustain regulation of the factors that govern the abortion decision.
Page 619 - I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked nor suggest any such counsel, and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.