It is common sense that in our immigration courts, where children fleeing devastating violence abroad often find themselves, kids need lawyers to advocate on their behalf. After all, lawyers go to school for years to understand the nuances of our legal system.
Interpretation
Children facing violence abroad require legal representation in immigration courts.
This quote highlights the importance of having qualified legal advocates for children who are seeking refuge from violence in immigration courts. It underscores the idea that navigating the complexities of the legal system is challenging, particularly for vulnerable populations like children, and that the expertise of lawyers is crucial in ensuring that their rights and needs are adequately represented.
In practice
During a seminar on children’s rights, this quote could emphasize the need for legal support.
Maher Arar's case stands as a sad example of how we have been too willing to sacrifice our core principles to overarching government power in the name of security, when doing so only undermines the principles we stand for and makes us less safe.
The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself. No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias.
One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.
You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there can be but one answer. If she does the same quantity and quality of work under the same conditions as a man, simple justice requires that she should be paid the same. wages. To deny her this is to deny her justice.
Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
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