Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor '76, busily engaged in an attempt to rewrite the Constitution through judicial fiat, is mistaken in the effort to change Princeton's informal/informational motto (Inbox, June 1), unless it is to restore it to the original text.
And these procedures are no guarantee against mistakes (though judicial process provides no such guarantee either).
Herring differentiates his case from the situations presented in Leon and Evans by noting that in those cases, the inaccurate information was the results of mistakes by judicial officers and employees, whereas here, the inaccurate information was provide by law enforcement personnel.
Because of this single, stupid mistake, his judicial career may be over.
Thus, although President Obama was right to point out that conservative justices often engage in judicial activism, he was mistaken insofar as he meant to suggest that judicial activism is presumptively in "error".
"And the reason it has taken us so long is that we're really just starting to accept the imperfections of our judicial system and admit that mistakes do happen".
The effort to put a price on prosecutorial misconduct, errant judicial rulings and forensic lab mistakes was undertaken by the Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at UC Berkeley and the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Supreme Court of Louisiana said merely that the pending petitions for relief in this case presented an executive, rather than a judicial, question and, by that mistake of law, it precluded itself from discussing the constitutional issue before us.
We look to the Founding Fathers and try to understand their intentions, we study our history to learn from our mistakes, and we weigh judicial precedent — all in an attempt to promote equality before the law.
Still, the courts have been mistaken to think that judicial abstention is mandated in such cases.
