“Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any law reform, is reckoned in decades usually; in years, at least. And, after all, as the Court itself asserted in overruling the minimum-wage cases, it may not be the Constitution that was at fault.” YearsMayLawCoursesCasesPeriodsConstitutionCourtFaultsDecadesReformAmendmentsMinimumJudicialMinimum WageConstitutional AmendmentsGestationGestation Period Author:Robert H. Jackson
“With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.” MenBookLawPoliticalChanceCasesDemocracyCrimeHe ManFindingsFairsFilledCommittedDiscoveringOffensePinsViolationProsecutorInvestigatorsLaw Books Author:Robert H. Jackson
“I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented-interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night.” FirstsMadeLawUsedNightThreeCasesBedArgumentThirdsLogicalDisappointingInterruptedSolicitors Author:Robert H. Jackson
“Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.” NeedsProcessLibertyOpinionCasesSupportInvolvedIntelligentCourtEnlightenedPublic OpinionVigorousCivil Liberties Author:Robert H. Jackson
