A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law.
My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.
One of the fundamental pillars of international humanitarian law is that proper distinction should be made between military targets and civilians. That is why indiscriminate bombing, let alone the deliberate targeting of residential areas or agricultural infrastructure, is considered a war crime.
To indiscriminately cast all law enforcement as enemies of our communities is to engage in an attempt to divide our nation by turning Americans against each other.
I am not about to be a party to anything having to do with the law that is going to destroy individual freedom and liberty in this country.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks after 11 September, but, as the American public got to grips with how the law was affecting their individual rights, their protests grew loud and angry.
I will call out the lazy, the idle, and the ignorant. I will support the hard working, the industrious, and the law.
If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service.
We stand for law and order, so we will not allow the scourge of violence to infect our communities.
There are no consequences for Snowden breaking the law in Snowden's World. It's where his massively inflated ego dictates the rules and determines which he will follow.
Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.
All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.
The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.
