Potter Stewart
Potter Stewart
Potter Stewartwas an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. During his tenure, he made, among other areas, major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth23 January 1915
CityJackson, MI
CountryUnited States of America
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censorship confidence hallmark lack reflects
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
amendment buy cannot congress empowered freedom freeman includes man means promise secure whatever wherever white
At the very least, the freedom that Congress is empowered to secure includes the freedom to buy whatever a white man can buy, the right to live wherever a white man can live. If Congress cannot say that being a freeman means at least this much, then the 13th Amendment made a promise it cannot keep.
abortion different medical
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
justice swiftness demand
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
differences knowing ethics
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
justice fairness
Fairness is what justice really is.
sunday forgotten togetherness
For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.
citizens unattractive may
May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.
way lightning unusual
These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.
truth speaks-out law
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.
christian religious wall
I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the ' wall of separation,' a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution.
liberty facts fundamentals
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
strong independent arrogant
Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . .
giving criminals doe
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.