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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do. — Byron White Copy Share Image
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. — Byron White Copy Share Image
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 Image
