Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
1571
AUTHOR:
Edwin Meese 3rd, US Attorney General
QUOTATION:
The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.
ATTRIBUTION:
On Supreme Court’s assertion in 1958 that its earlier ruling requiring desegregation established “the supreme law of the land,” ib
