Byron White
Byron White
Byron Raymond "Whizzer" Whitewon fame both as an American football halfback and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Born and raised in Colorado, White played in the National Football League for three seasons and practiced law for 15 years before his Supreme Court appointment. White was the Colorado state chair of John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth8 June 1917
CityFort Collins, CO
CountryUnited States of America
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.... There should be, therefore, great resistance to ... redefining the category of rights deemed to be fundamental. Otherwise, the Judiciary necessarily takes to itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority.
The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.
Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.
When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you don't do it at all.
A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.