Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.