The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

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Law, Right, Facts, Both, Jury, Determine

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Antonin Scalia, Louis D. Brandeis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Earl Warren, Sandra Day O'Connor

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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.Samuel Chase

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Religious Liberty Equally Established

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. - Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.Sonia Sotomayor

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Conclusions Compel Heart

U.S. companies need clear guidelines on when they have to turn over electronic communications to law enforcement if that information is stored abroad. The current uncertainty harms U.S. businesses and their customers and does not well-serve our foreign relationships.Suzan DelBene

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Companies Foreign Businesses

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.Joseph Barbera

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Decent Earned Mike

The Mental Health Reform Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in 2016. It was one of my proudest moments in Congress.Chris Murphy

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Moments President Congress

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.Margaret Cavendish

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Brothers And Sisters Sisters Brothers

Christ's fishermen should not meddle with men's law, for men' s law contains sharp stones and trees by which the net of God is broken, and the fish wend out of the world.John Wycliffe

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Broken Christ Fish

When I met Barack Obama, in our first year of law school, he had already put on his big-time politician act. He just didn't quite have it polished, and he hadn't figured out that he needed charm and humor to round out the confidence and intelligence.Jackie Fuchs

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Confidence Barack Obama Law School

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. - E. W. Howe

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Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.Samuel Chase

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Measure Concern Depend

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.Ernest Holmes

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Cause And Effect Effect Reward

As a former prosecutor, I will always be on the side of the law and not any particular constituency.Alexander Acosta

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Particular Former Prosecutor

In full accordance with the law - and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives - the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al-Qa'ida terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones.John O. Brennan

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Specific United States Order