Occupation: Judge Birth: February 6, 1923 Death: January 29, 2000
Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!.
The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi….
Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchas….
The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience..
Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people..
You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available..
The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let the….
If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed….
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been try….
With competition everyone has to try harder..
I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court….
I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun….
The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the s….
People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable..
I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had ….
The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of….
Competition is good and has served us well..
The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere..
I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this c….
I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ….
The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to th….