For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided.
Warren E. BurgerThe notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with problems, like people with pains, want relief, and they want it as quickly and inexpensively as possible.
Warren E. BurgerWe are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
Warren E. BurgerThe president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.
Warren E. Burger