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Quotes about law and lawyers
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I’ve made up my own mind during all that time. (Butler Gerard)
I think if anybody looks at my record on the court of appeals, they can get an idea about the way I approach the work of being a judge. And that’s what I would try to do on the Supreme Court. (Butler Gerard)
I think that anybody who is appointed to any judicial position has to be himself or herself. And I don’t think that anybody can try to replace the person or can duplicate the approach of the person who that person is replacing. (Butler Gerard)
I think that Congress’ ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary. (Butler Gerard)
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I would try to emulate her dedication and her integrity and her dedication to the case-by-case process of adjudication. (Butler Gerard)
In this case, the need for such consultation was acute, since we made it abundantly clear to your office… that we had serious legal objections. (Butler Gerard)
It has most of the advantage of a brief devoted to the overruling of Roe v. Wade; it makes our position clear, does not even tacitly concede Roe’s legitimacy, and signals that we regard the question as live and open. (Butler Gerard)
None of the legal issues presented by this case seems to warrant Supreme Court review. (Butler Gerard)
The role of a practicing attorney is to achieve a desirable result for the client in the particular case at hand. But a judge can’t think that way. A judge can’t have any agenda, a judge can’t have any preferred outcome in any particular case and a judge certainly doesn’t have a client. (Butler Gerard)
The things that I said in the 1985 memo were a true expression of my views at the time from my vantage point as an attorney in the Solicitor General’s office. But that was 20 years ago and a great deal has happened in the case law since then. (Butler Gerard)
There is no categorical ‘harassment exception’ to the First Amendment’s free speech clause. There is of course no question that non-expressive, physically harassing conduct is entirely outside the ambit of the free speech clause. But there is also no question that the free speech clause protects a wide variety of speech that listeners may consider deeply offensive, including statements that impugn another’s race or national origin or that denigrate religious beliefs. (Butler Gerard)
This is not an ordinary lawsuit, and the issues may consequently take on added significance. (Butler Gerard)
We therefore question whether the United States should agree to this provision. (Butler Gerard)
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position. (Butler Gerard)
The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way. (Butler Gerard)
They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it. (Butler Gerard)
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. (Butler Gerard)
How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. (Butler Gerard)
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law. (Butler Gerard)
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death. (Butler Gerard)
This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law. (Butler Gerard)
“I teach constitutional law, [and] I'm getting to the age now that I actually know some of the people that they are appointing to these courts, ” (Butler Gerard)
It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison. (Butler Gerard)
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time. (Butler Gerard)
Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals. (Butler Gerard)
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