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Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.


Lamar S. Smith

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LAMAR ALEXANDER Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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EDWIN MEESE Your political views really denote your spiritual views.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON I keep my political views to myself.
NICK JONAS Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life
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SAINT IGNATIUS You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Actors with political views are a dime a dozen.
TOM HANKS What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.
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JEN LANCASTER The people rightly demand judges who follow, not make, law,
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TED OLSON I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.
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How diligently they read them!
Here they find the...
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Truth flows from universal law, not personal views.
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GRETCHEN LAMAR They create chaos, but it's a controlled chaos. That's a comfortable environment for them. All three...
GARY LAMAR We were very happy with that.
GARY LAMAR I think the school became interested in building an all-around girls program. They had won only abou...
GARY LAMAR It's driven by the government doing a regulatory taking on a piece of property.
LAMAR WHITMER I just think it's obscene to scare the public with public safety cuts. They need to prioritize the b...
LAMAR WHITMER The purpose of the (Wednesday) meeting is to put on a charade.
LAMAR WHITMER I've heard from a lot of people, mostly small-business owners, about how they feel neglected by City...
LAMAR WHITMER Right now we're playing bad, and anything bad that happens, it just seems to multiply for us.
LAMAR SIMMONS We talked about that we needed to shorten up our swings. We tried, but obviously we didn't do a very...
LAMAR SIMMONS I believe she's an All-Star caliber player. And I think she's out to prove that.
LAMAR SIMMONS We got shut out quite a few times last year. Scoring some runs builds the whole team's confidence.
LAMAR SIMMONS When you see a big name on your schedule, then you pay attention. I don't want to knock the I-AA tea...
LAMAR OWENS I think getting that record would mean a lot for our team because it would show how far we've come. ...
LAMAR OWENS I would've been satisfied with a one-point victory. But we wanted to prove that we're on a different...
LAMAR OWENS I would have been satisfied with a one-point win. But to see our offense take off in the second and ...
LAMAR OWENS I look at that trophy at some point pretty much every day. I think everybody in the brigade does, to...
LAMAR OWENS We wanted to come out here and put it together by playing four quarters of Navy football, and we pla...
LAMAR OWENS We needed this game, so I just wanted to stay aggressive around the boards, find the basket, get som...
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