I had been born a Republican. My dad was an active Republican, but he was not active in politics and I really never was either. It’s true that I did belong to that party, but it really had very little impact on my public work or my private views. John Paul Stevens Read Quote
To make a coverage decision, doesn’t one have to make a medical judgment? John Paul Stevens Read Quote
To show a ‘well-founded fear of persecution’, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country. John Paul Stevens Read Quote
Sam Alito replacing Justice O’Connor was a very significant change. He is much more conservative. And, as for John Roberts, he is much more in the direction of protecting the rights of very rich people to donate money to campaigns than Bill Rehnquist ever was. John Paul Stevens Read Quote
When I joined the Supreme Court in 1975, both state and federal judges accepted the Court’s unanimous decision in United States v. Miller as having established that the Second Amendment’s protection of the right to bear arms was possessed only by members of the militia and applied only to weapons used by the militia. John Paul Stevens Read Quote
When I signed on to letting the death penalty back in, I thought the procedural protections against executing an innocent person were stronger than they turned out to be. John Paul Stevens Read Quote
They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade. John Paul Stevens Read Quote
The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. John Paul Stevens Read Quote
