Court Fairness Quotes

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

We are patriotic enough to believe there is no good reason why foreign investors from Europe cannot be expected to resolve any disputes fairly through British justice, operating through British courts. And we are European enough to think that our companies can do the same by relying on European courts.

We should be a nation that welcomes immigrants, keeps families together, and ensures that everyone gets a fair day in court.

Lack of female judges does not render the entire judicial process suspect…. Does every woman seeking divorce need to appear before a female judge in order to feel fairly treated? That's ridiculous.

I support an equal playing field for plaintiffs and defendants - and the way to get that equal playing field is not by having unlimited discovery.

If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the government against the condemned, a vital spark of American democracy would be extinguished.

I would never criticize a judge just because he or she presides in another state, including Alabama.

I am skeptical of the ability of black revolutionaries to achieve a fair trial anywhere in the United States.

The hanging of black men for murder and the inflicting of a lighter punishment upon white men for the same offense will not have a very beneficial effect upon the black population. Such partiality in the administration of justice will embitter the blacks and will give greater license in the commission of crimes of violence to the whites. Criminals, white and blacks, must be treated alike. Before the infliction of the death penalty will do the good it ought to there must be a public sentiment that will demand that there shall be no leniency shown by courts and juries to white murderers.