Justice Breyer: 'Not all our decisions are right'

WorldNetDaily ^ | August 11, 2005 | Joe Kovacs

[Past Your Eyes]

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer says not all rulings from America's highest court are correct, admitting judges don't have "some great special insight," and he defends the practice of studying courts in foreign countries to help decide cases in the United States.

Breyer made the remarks during a panel discussion this week in Chicago at the annual conference of the American Bar Association.

[RobbyS]

The Court has the right to invoke other municipal law but ONLY when dealing with matters of international law. In any case, their authority is limited to case under the Constitution and laws of the United States. Can you imagine the outcry if Scalia or some Catholic jutice were to invoke Canon law?

[Horkster]

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests", I shall reply that I was informed their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can. -Barry Goldwater

Fantastic quote! How did we *not* elect this man president?

[cotton1706]

This is from "The Conscience of a Conservative", the best selling political manifesto of the 20th century. As timeless today as it was then. Goldwater would have beaten Kennedy had he lived.

[N. Theknow]

Justice Breyer: 'Not all our decisions are right'

Well, get constipated and hire a sidekick named Dr. Watson.

[Teacher317]

Your job, 'Justice' Breyer, is not determining "what is right", but "what is Constitutional"... which you took an oath to uphold. Other nations do not address the American Constitution at all in their decisions and law-making, therefore they have no place in your decision-making. Dolt.