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

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Structural alteration motivated by the perception of political influence can only feed that latter perception, further eroding that trust.

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What I’m trying to do is to make those whose instincts may favor important structural change or other similar institutional changes such as forms of court-packing to think long and hard before they embody those changes in law.

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The problem with trying to separate misdemeanor and felony is that different states have different rules and different crimes that count as misdemeanors.

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