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Breyer

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Brey·er  (brr), Stephen Gerald Born 1938.
American jurist who was appointed an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1994.
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Breyer stated that "no case limits forfeiture to instances where the defendant's purpose or motivation is to keep the witness away.
Original sin by Bradley, Craig M. / Trial
While favoring judicial modesty, Justice Breyer refuses to see the Constitution as a static guide to an ever-changing world.
Breyer, Stephen. Active liberty; interpreting our democratic ... by Levinson, Daniel / Kliatt
In its pages, Breyer proposes the substitution of judicial for legislative initiative as the primum mobile of national government, advances the primacy of a formless but catchy abstraction (the giddy but elastic nostrum, "active liberty") over the particulars of constitution and statute, and promotes a presumably democratic ideal (his own ethereal one, of course) over the rigors of public deliberation and consensus.
Judicial immodesty by Andrews, Cory L. / Modern Age
 
 
 
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