"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) To Thomas Jefferson, the fulcrum between the people …
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Judge’s Opinions
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I have been taking some heat from friends and colleagues for my steadfast defense of personal liberties and my arguments that the Constitution — when interpreted in accordance with the …
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The loss of liberty is at hand. Every day in America, mayors and governors — not one of whom is constitutionally or lawfully empowered to author laws and assign punishments …
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During the past month, as Americans have been terrified of the coronavirus, another demon has been lurking ready to pounce. It is a demon of our own creation. It is …
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That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves. — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When …
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"If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned." — Justice George Sutherland (1862-1942) In …
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) One of my Fox colleagues recently sent me …
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"The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of …
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The issue of whether government in America can quarantine persons against their will, ostensibly for their own health and that of others with whom they may come in contact, requires …
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I have been writing for years about the dangers to human freedom that come from government mass surveillance. The United States was born in a defiant reaction to government surveillance. …
