Mollie Hemingway
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“Justice Brennan described the power of these unelected justices with chilling clarity when he told his incoming clerks that the most important rule in the law was the “Rule of Five.”
― Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
― Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
“The principle that there is a presumption of innocence in favor of the accused is the undoubted law, axiomatic and elementary,” wrote Justice Edward White in Coffin v United States, tracing it from Deuteronomy through Roman Law, Canon Law, and the Common Law and illustrating it with an anecdote about a fourth-century provincial governor on trial before the Roman Emperor”
― Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
― Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
“There had been only three confirmations in the final year of a presidency when the opposing party controlled the Senate, most recently in 1888, when Grover Cleveland nominated Melville W. Fuller to be chief justice.”
― Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
― Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
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