Presidential Quotes
He said, "You don't have Nixon to kick around anymore!"
Richard M. Nixon
This is the current nominee to SCOTUS.
Amy Coney Barrett
The 13th Amendment eradicated this.
Slavery.
Extra credit: What state did not ratify the 13th Amendment until 2013?
The first 2 years of law school she was top of her class at this university.
Harvard
This Civil Rights Leader was the first black woman to lay in honor.
Rosa Parks
He said "We have nothing to fear but itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
This is the current Chief Justice
Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
These laws suppressed the African American vote through poll taxes, literacy exams and grandfather clauses.
Jim Crow laws.
RBG was appointed by this president in 1993.
Bill Clinton
She said "“A judge is obligated to apply the law as it is, not as she wishes it would be. She’s obliged to follow the law, even when her personal preferences cut the other way, or when she will experience great public criticism for doing so.”
Amy Coney Barrett
He said "A house united against itself cannot stand."
Abraham Lincoln
This judge said "The secret to a happy life is work worth doing."
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
The iconic 50's department store was the location of lunch counter sit-ins.
Woolworths
What were the 3 strikes she believed were against her?
1) I was Jewish;
2) I was a woman; but the killer was
3) I was a mother.
This is what RBG had added to the Courts once she was added to SCOTUS.
A women's bathroom!
He said " Ich bin ein berliner".
John F. Kennedy
These are the female justices who have served the Court.
Justices Sandra Day O'Connor (ret.), Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan
The baseball player was discharged from the Army for refusing to give up his seat on a bus while stationed at Ft. Hood, TX.
Jackie Robinson
Extra Credit - what was his brother famous for?
What law firm offered Ruth Bader Ginsburg a job immediately after graduation?
Not a single one!
This president never once voted prior to his electoral victory.
Zachary Taylor
He said, "From time to time the tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants?
Thomas Jefferson
These two Justices dated at Stanford Law School.
Justice O'Connor and Justice Rehnquist
This famous Civil Rights landmark represents a pivotal point in Voting Rights as law enforcemet officers attacked marchers with tear gas and nightsticks on "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965.
Edmund Pettus Bridge
What accessory would she change based on her opinion of a case ?
Her collar.
This President spent his entire campaign fund on booze when he ran for his state's legislature.
George Washington - Virginia's House of Burgesses in 1758