Quotables

“It’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution.”

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice JOHN ROBERTS responding to Solicitor General John Sauer’s argument that new times required new interpretations of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause during an April 1 oral argument.

“Unfortunately, emotionally charged decisions can come back and bite you in the rear end.”

RYAN FARMER, an attorney representing a Georgia man who was ordered to pay nearly $40,000 in unpaid overtime and damages after he paid one former worker’s final paycheck by dumping 91,500 oily pennies in her driveway.

“NASA is back in the business of sending people to the moon.”

NASA administrator JARED ISAACMAN on April 1 after the successful Artemis II launch.

“I was putting on about 37,000 steps per day looking for him. I haven’t done so much exercise in a very long time.”

Wisconsin resident DEBBIE MARLAND after a three-day search for an escaped petting zoo kangaroo.

“None of us should be expected to be in trial while being tried by an election challenge.”

Multnomah County, Ore., Circuit Judge ADRIAN BROWN asking other jurists to take her caseload while she sought reelection in April.*

*The Oregonian