The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence. — Byron White Copy Share Image
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision. — Byron White Copy Share
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in… — Byron White Copy Share
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due… — Byron White Copy Share
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in… — Byron White Copy Share
While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other,… — Byron White Copy Share
The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the laws of… — Byron White Copy Share
When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then… — Byron White Copy Share
Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot about working… — Byron White Copy Share
Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to… — Byron White Copy Share
Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do. — Byron White Copy Share
It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and… — Byron White Copy Share
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision. — Byron White Copy Share
As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment… — Byron White Copy Share
