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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... understanding of the Constitu- tion . Will you be able to separate your personal beliefs from your judi- cial duties ... understand you and fulfill our constitutional responsibil- ity . Thank you , Mr. Chairman . Thank you , Judge . The ...
... understanding of the Constitu- tion . Will you be able to separate your personal beliefs from your judi- cial duties ... understand you and fulfill our constitutional responsibil- ity . Thank you , Mr. Chairman . Thank you , Judge . The ...
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... understanding of her plight ? Will there be an attempt on your part to grow and understand our society with all its richness and diver- sity and with all its joy , often within sound of its cries of anguish and hopelessness ? In a new ...
... understanding of her plight ? Will there be an attempt on your part to grow and understand our society with all its richness and diver- sity and with all its joy , often within sound of its cries of anguish and hopelessness ? In a new ...
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... understand , the role of the Senate in this process . The Constitution requires us to give our advice and consent to ... understanding of the law , and the ability to explain it in ways that the American people will un- derstand . Based ...
... understand , the role of the Senate in this process . The Constitution requires us to give our advice and consent to ... understanding of the law , and the ability to explain it in ways that the American people will un- derstand . Based ...
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... understand that . He or she must recognize that real people , with real problems are af- fected by the decisions rendered by the Court . They must have a connection with and an understanding of the problems that people struggle with on ...
... understand that . He or she must recognize that real people , with real problems are af- fected by the decisions rendered by the Court . They must have a connection with and an understanding of the problems that people struggle with on ...
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... understanding and concerned friend . Much has been made of David's New Englandness — I think that is a word . I am not ... understand that their decisions are not mere academic or scholarly exercises , but , rather , the best hope of ...
... understanding and concerned friend . Much has been made of David's New Englandness — I think that is a word . I am not ... understand that their decisions are not mere academic or scholarly exercises , but , rather , the best hope 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.