If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.
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But the greatest injury of the 'wall' notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intentions of the drafters of the Bill of Rights. . . . The wall of separation between church and state is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.William Rehnquist
It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.
William Rehnquist
Somewhere out there, beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.
William Rehnquist
I didn't know we had that many people on our court.
William Rehnquist
Miranda announced a constitutional rule that Congress may not supersede legislatively.
William Rehnquist
Even today, when society's views on abortion are changing, the very existence of the debate is evidence that the right' to an abortion is not so universally accepted as (Roe) would have us believe.
William Rehnquist
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