I'm going to apply justice fairly, even to those who wear a badge," Mosby said.
I'm not clear why personal choice should automatically trump our way of applying justice.
"We think we can apply justice to it," José Arjona says, "but institutions are the dirtiest places.
"Where the plaintiff's claim rests solely on the independent foreign harm," that exception does not apply, Justice Breyer said.
"Why wouldn't it be a bright, clear line if we said, 'Court to court, Bowles controls; agency to court, Bowles does not apply'?" Justice Ginsburg asked.
"We want a civil state that respects the law and rights, a state that applies justice," he told Le Monde, a French newspaper.
The prosecutor said the bickering could affect Mr. Estrada's case, which he described as a symbol of "how we apply justice in this country".
"Unless the Americans realize that they really have to change and become more evenhanded and apply justice in the region, things will be the same," he said.
"I plead with you that, whatever you do, don't try to apply the rules of the political world to this institution; they do not apply," Justice Thomas said, adding, "The last political act we engage in is confirmation".
That record has fueled the perception that the court applies justice unequally — by some accounts, prejudicially — passing up cases involving major crimes to go after easier ones that single out Africans.
