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History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state. -- Michael K. Simpson
The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process. -- Eric Holder
It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical. -- John Cusack
Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy. -- Howard Berman
One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation. -- Ted Cruz
The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed. -- Byron White
Out here, due process is a bullet. -- John Wayne
Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law. -- Andy Griffith
Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. -- Eric Holder
In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system. -- Paul Gillmor
Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law. -- Bill Vaughan
I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
You have got to make sure there's due process for somebody that's accused of a crime. You've got make sure they're safe. -- Rick Scott
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. -- William J. Brennan, Jr.
Ironically, one of the clearer threats to consumer privacy is the government's largely unchecked ability to collect your sensitive information without due process. -- Marsha Blackburn
The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches. -- David Souter
When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we need to be concerned about. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country. -- Rob Simmons
I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process. -- Lynette Fromme
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states. -- Burke Marshall
In China, the problem is that with the system of censorship that's now in place, the user doesn't know to what extent, why, and under what authority there's been censorship. There's no way of appealing. There's no due process. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Make no mistake. This is a war on rural America. ... It is chilling to watch people who joined the military to defend American citizens point rifles on American soil at American citizens and women and children. A sniper rifle is not due process. -- Matt Shea
Every day, IRS agents levy liens on homes, bank accounts, and businesses; they confiscate cars, furniture, boats, and other personal property without the constitutional protections of due notice, hearing, and due process. If a person forcibly resists, government agents kill him for resisting arrest. -- Jacob G. Hornberger
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury-national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture-we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands. -- Rand Paul
I think that all of us, as Americans, are due due process and have a right to a fair trial, and have a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think that is the American way and it's the foundation upon which this country was built. -- Wesley Snipes
I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings. -- L. Neil Smith
I mean, we do believe in due process in America. I thought we did. -- Hooman Majd
It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes. -- Robert H. Jackson
American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review. -- Cornel West
How is it that we have sodomy protected under that due process but prostitution unprotected? It's schizophrenic. -- Tom Coburn
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. -- William J. Brennan, Jr.
We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all? -- Howard Gordon
Edward Snowden should be brought back from Russia and given due process. And I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence. -- Mike Pompeo
As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.' -- Nat Hentoff
The definition of hell in the legal system is: endless due process and no justice; (in the corporate world) it would be: endless due diligence and no horse sense. -- Charlie Munger
Ylli, Agron and Mehmet were never given a fair and public trial, an opportunity to defend themselves, or any semblance of due process. Their post-conflict, extrajudicial killing was cold-blooded murder. -- Avis Bohlen
The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court. -- Rand Paul
I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's gonna keep the American people safe and is what - what's gonna uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process. -- Barack Obama
Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. -- Edward R. Murrow
Our bill of rights has been shredded. The fourth amendment specifically prohibits the kind of activities the NSA is involved in domestically. The fifth amendment prohibits any president or anyone else from killing anyone without due process. -- Ray McGovern
While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under the law, and weaken the protection of political and civil rights on the Internet. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I would not reconsider the nuclear cuts. The appropriations committee did due process in looking at where there was the ability to cut some spending and that's what we did and now it's time to look forward to fiscal year '12. -- Joe Heck
The word today is "detained," not "interred." People are being detained with no due process. They don't know what the charges are, why they're being detained. Simply because they have an Arab name or some association, but there are no charges. -- George Takei
The people of the FBI are sworn to protect both security and liberty. It isn't a question of conflict. We must care deeply about protecting liberty through due process of law, while also safeguarding the citizens we serve - in every investigation. -- James Comey
We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats. -- Ted Cruz
Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be carried out in ways that erode due process, rule of law and the protection of innocent citizens' political and civil rights. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but has exercised it in practice. -- Glenn Greenwald
Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag. -- Margaret Thatcher
Now, how do you explain Obama's claim, that he can kill American citizens without due process? Well, he has his attorney general get up and say, "Well, it doesn't say in the constitution judicial process. It just says due process." Now that's a lawyerly diversion from the truth. -- Ray McGovern
The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise, or due process of law or the Australian ballot. -- John F. Kennedy
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up. -- Daniel Pipes
Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence. -- Henry Paulson
Tomorrow there will be no division to Europe and Asia. These are old concepts that would remain only on maps. Everything will be united. Companies will be united. It is a process of structures growing due to the technological progress. -- Lech Walesa
It is true that I voted against the National Defense Authorization Act, because when I campaigned in Texas I told voters in Texas that I would oppose the federal government having the authority to detain U.S. citizens permanently with no due process. I have repeatedly supported an effort to take that out of that bill, and I honored that campaign commitment. -- Ted Cruz
We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples due process and equal protection of the laws. Civil marriage is one of the cornerstones of our way of life. It allows individuals to celebrate and publicly declare their intentions to form lifelong partnerships, which provide unparalleled intimacy, companionship, emotional support, and security. -- Henry Franklin Floyd
Some have argued that the President is required to get permission from a federal court before taking action against a United States citizen who is a senior operational leader of al Qaeda or associated forces. This is simply not accurate. 'Due process' and 'judicial process' are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process. -- Eric Holder
In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for. -- Julia Child
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted. -- George Will
Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bears arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason,then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings. -- L. Neil Smith
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error. -- Benjamin Cardozo
Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc. -- Anne Rice
This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it. -- Alex Kozinski
Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax. -- Robert H. Jackson
The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product. -- Eric Hoffer

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