It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.
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. BurgerThere may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.
Warren E. BurgerFor 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. Burger