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• Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. — William J. Brennan
• We are trying to identify employers that might be [hiring illegal aliens] and to take effective action against them. We're trying to… — Janet Reno
• Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says… — L. Neil Smith
• Out here, due process is a bullet. — John Wayne
• The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also… — Burke Marshall
• We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples… — Henry Franklin Floyd
• The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It… — Ted Olson
• The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under… — Byron White
• I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial… — Lynette Fromme
• Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can… — Margaret Thatcher
• Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.… — Frank Zappa
• America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to… — Joe Biden

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