“The legal system has painted itself into this corner and it is not our obligation to get it out.”
Dr. Orin F. Guidry, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, in an unofficial message to members urging them not to help with lethal injections
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“This is a woman who reached out in the community and said ‘I will extend my effort on behalf of those with the least power.' She took up the cause of children.”
Former governor Jim Thompson in praise of IL Supreme Court Justice Ann M. Burke at her swearing-in ceremony July 6th
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“We have armies of lobbyists now watching (legislatures) in Washington and the states. We don't really have that in the court system where just as important laws are made.”
Attorney Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a “cyberliberties” group that prefers to challenge laws in court rather than opposing their passage in the first place