Quotes by Law The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American. Al Sharpton practice rights law It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us. Al Smith weakness causes law It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy. Al Smith law sympathy people I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Al Smith law exercise believe Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching. Alafair Burke zimmerman law world In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them. Alafair Burke rely-upon law facts Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms - what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling. Alain de Botton errors law ideas To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of the law, secure borders and public safety should prevail. Drugs should not enter illegally. Migration should take place in accordance with lawful norms and secure and safe procedures. Alan Bersin law mean ideas 'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently. Alan Blinder economics influence law Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. Alan Bullock foundation enabling law The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told. Alan Dershowitz freedom-of-speech law lying I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes. Alan Dershowitz law mistake thinking I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals. Alan Dershowitz presumption-of-innocence law thinking The law is agnostic about truth. Alan Dershowitz limiting-freedom-of-expression agnostic law For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell. Alan Dershowitz simple law people In representing criminal defendants - especially guilty ones - it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense. The courtroom oath - to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth - is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth. Alan Dershowitz government law sports Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients. Alan Dershowitz legal-system law justice To ask about the 'source' of rights or morals assumes an erreous conclusion. To ask about the source of morals is to assume that such a source exists. As if it existed outside of human constructed systems. The 'source' is the human ability to learn from experience and to entrench rights in our laws and in our consciousness. Our rights come from our long history of wrongs. Alan Dershowitz rights law long I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy. Alan Dershowitz law people thinking I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy. Alan Dershowitz intellectual law moving «4567891011121314»
