“As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing. I would like to see the government admit they were wrong and do something about it, so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color.” LongGovernmentHappensRaceRecordsColorCitizensCourtPrisonHearingTrialsConcentrationCampsCreedsAmerican CitizensConcentration Camp Author:Fred Korematsu
“I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me.” Has BeensMediaAmountCitizensDeserveFairsUglyTrialsAmerican CitizensMisinformationMaliciousFair Trial Author:Michael Jackson
“In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.” MayWarRealityAmericaFatherPoliticsProcessCommunityJusticeHistoryTechnologyDemocracyViolenceGenerationsPolicyCitizensBattleEqualEthicsConstitutionHuman RightsTerrorismDuesArguingTrialsCommitIdeologyEngagedFree SpeechPenaltiesMaximumEqual RightsDeath PenaltyBattlefieldsTreasonDespicableConvictsDue Process Author:Rand Paul
“The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They cannot be known beforehand, and they melt back into the multitiude after each trial.” MomentsLastsKnownCitizensTrialsMeritMultitudesJurySelectedJurorsTrial By Jury Author:John Henry Wigmore
“... The popular attitude toward the administration of justice should be one of respect and confidence. Bureaucratic, purely official justice, can never receive such confidence. The one way to secure it is to give the citizen-body itself a share in the administration of justice. And that is what jury-trial does.” WayGivingShouldDoeBodyJusticeAttitudeShareCitizensTrialsSecureOne WayAdministrationOfficialsJuryTrial By JuryAdministration Of Justice Author:John Henry Wigmore
“In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.” WayLongLawAbilityWhitePoorGroupsExampleCitizensLong TimeConcernedCatholicJewVariousTrialsImmigrantsHistorianTomsArrivalsPrecedentWhiteness Author:David Roediger
“I think our legal system needs to be developed. Cases of citizens who are detained and then have to wait much too long for a trial - that is scary, for everyone. When someone commits a crime he needs to be charged quickly. Why does this take so long in many cases? I don't know. Is it because our legal system is still rudimentary? China has promised to modernize its legal system. This has high priority.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsLongDoeStillsWaitingCasesCrimeCitizensScaryChinaPrioritiesTrialsCommitLegal System Author:Zhang Xin
“Richard Nixon got kicked out of Washington for tapping one hotel suite. Today we're tapping every American citizen in the country, and no one has been put on trial for it or even investigated. We don't even have an inquiry into it.” Has BeensCountryTodayCitizensTrialsHotelInquiryAmerican CitizensTapping Author:Edward Snowden
“Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them without trial, signed legislation that gave torture impunity, and spied on their citizens, just as Obama has. It isn't a question of what has been done that Hitler did. It's what does every dictator do, on the left or the right, that is being done here and now.” PeopleDoeHas BeensDoneLeftCitizensLet MeCarefulTrialsTortureDictatorLegislationHere And NowBeing DoneImpunity Author:Naomi Wolf