The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.
Warren E. BurgerThe State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.
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. BurgerTrials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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. Burger[I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum develops in constitutional theory and it can be a 'downhill thrust' easily set in motion but difficult to retard or stop.
Warren E. Burger