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• Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow…
• The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit…
• Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
• Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
• Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to…
• If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the…
• If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an…
• Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but…
• The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's…
• With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the…
• At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of…
• It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our…

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