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Attorney at law

Edwin Meese is a renowned American lawyer, born on December 2, 1931. He has made significant contributions to the legal and political fields, serving as the Attorney General of the United States and having a wide-ranging influence in academia and politics.

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“I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.”

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“[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.”

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“Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.”

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Book:Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988

Source: Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988

“A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.”

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Book:Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988

Source: Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988

“The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.”

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“You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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“Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.”

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“An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.”

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“The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.”

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Book:Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988

Source: Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988

“You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.”

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“Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections.”

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“As a former U.S. attorney general under President Reagan, and a former Ohio secretary of state, we would like to say something that might strike some as obvious: Those who oppose photo voter-ID laws and other election-integrity reforms are intent on making it easier to commit vote fraud.”

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“That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite claims to the contrary by Mr. Holder and his allies. As more states adopt such laws, the left has railed against them with increasing fury, even invoking the specter of the Jim Crow era to describe electoral safeguards common to most nations, including in the Third World.”

“Ascribing racial animus to people who are trying to safeguard democratic integrity is a crude yet effective political tactic that obscures the truth. But there's something even worse than name-calling: legal interference from Washington with valid laws.”

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“Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.”

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Born: December 2, 1931
Known for: Attorney at law
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