Byron White Quotes

• A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

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  Government, Order, Criminals

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• Somos la única rama del gobierno que se explica por escrito cada vez que toma una decisión.

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  Writing, Government, Decision

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• When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you don't do it at all.

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  Blow, Amount

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• The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.... There should be, therefore, great resistance to ... redefining the category of rights deemed to be fundamental. Otherwise, the Judiciary necessarily takes to itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority.

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  País, Derechos, Derecho

  Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 1986.

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• The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

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  History, Speak, Amendments

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• El Tribunal es más vulnerable y se acerca más a la ilegitimidad cuando se ocupa del derecho constitucional creado por los jueces que tiene pocas o ninguna raíz reconocible en el lenguaje o el diseño de la Constitución.

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  Law, Roots, Judging

  Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 1985.

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• The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

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  Law, Choices, Morality

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• The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.

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  Judging, Roles, Cases

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

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  Law, Way, Would Be

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• Los deportes exigen constantemente al participante el máximo rendimiento, y desarrollan la integridad, la autosuficiencia y la iniciativa. Enseñan mucho a trabajar en grupo, sin sumergirse excesivamente en él.

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  Sports, Integrity, Self

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• It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.

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  Sight, Police, Doubt

  Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1, 1985.

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• The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

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  Light, Risk, Prejudice

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• The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the laws of the many States that still make such conduct illegal, and have done so for a very long time.... Respondent would have us announce, as the Court of Appeals did, a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

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  Law, Issues, Long

  Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 1986.

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• Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

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  Doe, Use, Failing

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• Mantener el orden en las aulas nunca ha sido fácil y es evidente que el entorno escolar requiere cierta flexibilización de las restricciones a las que habitualmente están sujetos los registros efectuados por las autoridades públicas.

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  School, Order, Maintaining

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• While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.

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  Conocimiento, Responsabilidad, Ciencia

  Harmelin v. Michigan 501 U.S. 957 at 1023, 1991.

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• As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.

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  Exercise, Views, Judicial Power

  Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 at 222, 1973.

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• Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

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  Fundamentals, Homosexual, Unwilling

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