This is not what people expected when they wrote the cases upholding the death penalty more than 40 years ago.

Stephen Breyer

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Of course you’re going to think it has something to do with the city.

I think I have most of the considerations in mind. I simply have to weigh Senate Democrats and think about Senate Democrats and decide when the proper time is.

It is discriminatory against religion.

[T]o overrule under fire in the absence of the most compelling reason to reexamine a watershed decision would subvert the Court's legitimacy beyond any serious question.

Legal stability allows lawyers to give clients sound advice and allows ordinary citizens to plan their lives, each time This Court overrules a case, This Court produces increased uncertainty.

And that is what Texas has done, by prohibiting state officials from enforcing the statute and by authorizing the citizenry to enforce the law through private civil-enforcement actions, Texas has boxed out the judiciary from entertaining.

I've also said that I hope I don't die on the Supreme Court, and there we are.

I mean you can't really see what the people look like, how are they reacting. You can't pick up something that your colleague said so easily. What is this colleague -- what does he or she think of what's going on. And when you're there in person it's a more human thing, and I'd say that's what it was : a big improvement today.

The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics.

I'm there for everybody. I'm not just there for the Democrats. I'm not just there for the Republicans. And I'm not just there because the president was a Democrat who appointed me, it's a very great privilege to be in that job. And part of it is to remember that you're there for everyone. They won't like what you say half the time – or more. But you're still there for them.

Well, if one party could do it, I guess another party could do it.

Stephen Breyer, who turned 83 earlier this month, told The New York Times. Stephen Breyer recounted a conversation Stephen Breyer had with the late Justice Antonin Scalia :.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who turned 83 earlier this month, told The New York Times. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer recounted a conversation Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer had with the late Justice Antonin Scalia :.

Supreme Court's not Supreme Court.

You have to figure out what you're going to say in conference to a greater extent, to get it across simply, you have to be flexible, hear other people, and be prepared to modify your views. But that doesn't mean( going in with) a blank mind.

Primarily, of course, health, second, Supreme Court.

I mean, my goodness, every school in the country would be doing nothing but punishing.

I don't see much evidence it did, i mean, my goodness, every school in the country would be doing nothing but punishing.

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If the public sees judges as politicians in robes, its confidence in the courts and in the rule of law can only diminish, diminishing the court's power, including its power to act as a check on other branches, that authority, like the rule of law, depends on trust... that the court is guided by legal principle, not politics.