Political Quotes

If human nature and history teach us anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risks when governments proclaim indefinite states of emergency.

In our times, the jury trial has given way to a conveyor belt of plea bargains.

It asks us to believe that the very state in which the agency intends to store spent nuclear fuel indefinitely cannot be heard in court to complain about the agency's plans.

when confronted with coercive prosecutorial tactics designed to induce defendants to take plea deals, the Court has often condoned those practices or let them pass in silence.