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- Nov 07, 2020
I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed at his insistence. JFK showed what you could do, though he was a deeply flawed person, as we all now know.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect the rights in the Constitution, have to protect the requirement that the executive and the legislature not simply exercise raw power but adhere to standards of reasonableness and constitutionality.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my experience, most federal prosecutors, at every level, are seeking to make a name for themselves, and the best way to do that is by prosecuting some high-level person. While companies that are indicted almost always settle, individual defendants whose careers are at stake will often go to trial.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company would inevitably punish, directly or indirectly, the many employees and shareholders who were totally innocent.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but the defendant neither admits nor denies wrongdoing?
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- Nov 07, 2020
The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.
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- Nov 07, 2020
An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest on facts - cold, hard, solid facts, established either by admissions or by trials - it serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a past of making a fool of myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I really got into securities fraud prosecutions, I came to realize how central they were to the maintenance of a free market and how, in many ways, they are far more important to the welfare of our society than many of the more sensational criminal cases that one hears about.
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- Nov 07, 2020