“Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.” OrderViolenceWeightCourtLawyerBullshitBribeBuckles Book:Ascending Source: Ascending
“[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.” ThinkingWellsProblemCertainChoicesForceNationsRolesRightsViolenceSecurityPolicySeriousPrideGunStandingArmyPoliceTablesCourtAmendmentsSupreme CourtMeltingSecond AmendmentGun ViolenceConstitutional RightsPolice ForceSupreme Court JusticeCourt JusticePersonal Security Author:Antonin Scalia
“There was a man named Robert Dear who in court said he was a warrior for the babies, whose ex-wife talked about his Christian beliefs motivating his desire to attack and murder three people, including a police officer, in Colorado.That man is a Christian. He`s an avowed Christian. He appears to have acted on those Christian beliefs to undertake that act of violence.” PeopleMenSaidChristianDesireThreeBeliefWifeViolenceBabyMurderPoliceCourtIncludingDearWarriorOfficersExesPolice OfficerColoradoActs Of ViolenceEx Wife Author:Chris Hayes
“My job is thick with risks, threats, occasional violence and sometimes the necessary folly that sometimes courts humiliation and ridicule. But I don't care. I see myself as the dean of American paparazzi.” SometimesCareJobsViolenceRiskCourtThreatDon't CareI Don't CareFollyThickHumiliationRidiculeOccasionalDeanPaparazzi Book:Offguard: A Paparazzo Look at the Beautiful People Source: Offguard: A Paparazzo Look at the Beautiful People
“Depictions or expressions of sex, violence, crime are all permitted virtually without limit; but religion, it seems, never.No wonder many in America seem to believe that the court has become one more inclined to protect pornography than to protect religious expression.” BelieveSeemsAmericaSexReligiousWonderViolenceCrimeExpressionProtectLimitsCourtPornographyDepiction Author:John Cornyn
“It would not be desirable to include 'terrorism' among international crimes subject to International Criminal Court jurisdiction if defined to apply only to anti-state acts of violence. The failure to include terrorism as a distinct crime was due to the inability to agree upon its proper definition.” IfsStatesViolenceSubjectsCrimeAgreeCourtInternationalDefinitionsTerrorismDuesCriminalsDefinedDesirableInabilityActs Of ViolenceJurisdictionAgree Upon Author:Richard A. Falk