I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it. Stephen Breyer More Quotes by Stephen Breyer More Quotes From Stephen Breyer We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges. Stephen Breyer san-francisco california judging Judges are appointed often through the political process Stephen Breyer political judging process What we have is ... an absolute road map for people who want to avoid the 'point source' regulation. Stephen Breyer environment You can't say never, if it always holds, we wouldn't have Brown versus Board [ of Education ]. But, if it never holds, we're really in trouble in terms of the stability of the law. Okay ? Wonderful. This has occurred to you, this problem. And do you have anything to say that will help me decide this kind of balance ? Stephen Breyer politics Imagine I'm your client, forget I'm a judge. That's not too difficult. Stephen Breyer politics Look at the door we are opening up. Stephen Breyer politics The bail questions before us are technical but at heart they are simple, we need only recall the words of the Declaration of Independence, in particular its insistence that all men and women have ‘certain unalienable rights,’ and that among them is the right to liberty. Stephen Breyer politics The apparent reason has nothing to do with the heinousness of their crimes, apparently the reason the State decided to proceed with these eight executions is that the 'use by' date of the state's execution drug is about to expire. In my view, that factor, when considered as a determining factor separating those who live from those who die, is close to random. Stephen Breyer top-news One could reasonably believe that if Tucker had committed the same crime just across the Red River in, say, Bossier Parish, he would not now be on death row. Stephen Breyer politics (CNN anchor) Bernard Shaw -- we saw him on television -- said, 'They're going to nominate Judge Breyer.' Then I heard nothing for three hours, they're saying this on television, but no one's told me. Stephen Breyer politics He was a good friend. Stephen Breyer politics I thought there couldn't be a more controversial question than the one before. Stephen Breyer politics This is not what people expected when they wrote the cases upholding the death penalty more than forty years ago, and therefore I think it's time to revisit the issue. Stephen Breyer politics What I wrote in the opinion - first to suggest sometimes its the wrong person. Second, if you look at who is actually executed it seems pretty arbitrary, third, if you look at the average length of time it takes from the time a person is sentenced to death to the time of execution - 18 years now. Stephen Breyer politics This is not what people expected when they wrote the cases upholding the death penalty more than 40 years ago. Stephen Breyer politics We believe it highly likely that the death penalty now violates the Constitution. Stephen Breyer healthcare We believe it highly likely that the death penalty now violates the Eighth Amendment. Stephen Breyer politics Well, my goodness ... it does sound as if the town is being a little unreasonable, doesn't it? Stephen Breyer politics All kinds of odd things can happen to a victim. Stephen Breyer us-news At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over. Stephen Breyer over you politics political
