I think we would be smarter to help assist the technology development than to issue mandates before we have technology c...
That represents a reality that we are going to have to deal with...
We should set the example here in the United States, and the Fed has historically.
Senator Durbin and I did work together on legislation to ease some of the sentences for crack and other penalties.
But we have got to have a breakthrough. More people in prison need to be working.
So all I would say to our colleagues is there is no doubt in my mind that moving from a revolving door where people woul...
We have had an increase in violent crime rates.
I think we invest a lot of money because the Federal Government wants to have the highest and best prison system.
I just would say to my colleagues I think there is a decline in Federal and State incarceration rates from the time 1981...
I believe in terms of cost we spend too much per prisoner in the Federal system.
But it would be naive and a big error if we were to think we can just walk away from incarcerating dangerous people.
But it is not necessarily justice if you do not owe the claim, number one. It is not justice if you do not owe the claim...
I think proportionality, as in this rule, does seem to bring the judge in.
I hope that they reflect justice and not injustice. I hope they do not weaken justice in the process.
I believe it is proceeding in the proper way with public hearings beginning, I believe, this week.
One of the biggest damages to justice in America I think has been bogus lawsuits filed at great cost.
I do not believe we need dramatic, draconian changes in discovery.
Iran and North Korea were working together to test engines for inter-continental ballistic missile.
