Quote #26

I want to put to rest the speculation and unfounded rumors of my imminent retirement... I am not about to announce my retirement. I will continue to perform my duties as chief justice as long as my health permits.

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  3. [T]he Constitution does not guarantee the right to acquire information at a public library without any risk of embarrassment.
  4. [I am mystified at why] the highest court of the nation must behave like a bunch of old women every time they encounter the death penalty.
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  6. [It's] about time the Court faced the fact that the white people of the South don't like the colored people.
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  8. The Equal Rights Amendment would 'turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock'.

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