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Seats on the [Court] bench are not reserved for causes or interests. They're given to those who will uphold the rule of law so long as the nominee is well-qualified to interpret and apply the law.
Sam Brownback
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Sam Brownback
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 12
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Among the most famous of these Supreme Court cases of exercise of political power I believe are the cases of Roe V. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, two 1973 cases based on false statements which created a constitutional right to abortion.
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I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.
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I believe you [Samuel Alito] and others would look and say that the role of the courts is limited and it's not to decide political matters.
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The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws.
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I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
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Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it.
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I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.
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The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.
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I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.
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And you can claim whatever you want to of being pro-life or pro- choice, but the right to a abortion is not in the Constitution. The court created it. It created a constitutional right. And these decisions removed a fully appropriate political judgment from the people of the several states and has led to many adverse consequences.
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In recent years, even as the court has become an increasingly political body, the Senate is not focused on preserving any perceived ideological balance when Democrat presidents have appointed people to the court.
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If you get married, you lose all your benefits. That's insane! We should give people bonuses for getting married, and sending signals and talking about it to the society.
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[Jane] Roe has made it not only possible, but has found it constitutional to kill a whole class of people, simply because of their genetic make-up.
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Narrow scope of judicial power was the reason that people accepted the idea that the federal courts could have the power of judicial review that is, the ability to decide whether a challenged law comports with the Constitution.
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As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.
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History has shown that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did, in fact, dramatically change the balance of the court in many critical areas, such as abortion, the privacy debate expansion and child pornography.
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I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.
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I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
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The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.
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I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.
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