I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.
There is a separation – a very clear separation – between the judiciary, the legal system, and the political system in this country, and that’s why Labor has a problem with the issue of mandatory sentencing as a principle.
Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don’t have to declare war. You’re just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
If a woman chooses to have an abortion, it is legal to do that in this country, but I don’t think taxpayers should be put in a position to have to pay for those abortions.
Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.
The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation.
Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.
I admit my view of the world is colored by my legal and business experiences at Liberty.
Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.
I’ve thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I’ve managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.
Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
It’s really hard to argue that bitcoin doesn’t have many legitimate benefits to companies that are legal businesses when you have Dell and Expedia and all these companies now accepting it.
We need legal immigration as an alternative to illegal immigration and a way of getting the millions of unauthorized immigrants already here to get legal and get in compliance with our laws.
I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.
A lot of athletes take legal creatine or protein powders or just different pills and supplements to be able to recover faster. And I don’t take anything, I work hard and that’s just what it is, I don’t take anything.
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody’s switching to a computer. And I’m sort of laughed at.
The mainstream media and most of the political establishment are too quick to slander as ‘nativist’ the advocacy of barring of Islamist radicals from legal entry into the United States.
No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren’t available to everyone in it.
