Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press

If One Man Can Be Allowed To Determine For Himself What Is Law, Every Man Can. That Means First Chaos, Then Tyranny. Legal Process Is An Essential Part Of The Democratic Process.

It Would Be A Narrow Conception Of Jurisprudence To Confine The Notion Of "laws" To What Is Found Written On The Statute Books, And To Disregard The Gloss Which Life Has Written Upon It.

It Is A Wise Man Who Said That There Is No Greater Inequality Than The Equal Treatment Of Unequals.

Fragile As Reason Is And Limited As Law Is As The Institutionalised Medium Of Reason, That's All We Have Between Us And The Tyranny Of Mere Will And The Cruelty Of Unbridled, Undisciplined Feelings.

One Is Entitled To Say Without Qualification That The Correlation Between Prior Judicial Experience And Fitness For The Supreme Court Is Zero.