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The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

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Alex Kozinski
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 23
Judge
Lawyer
Little Paris
Impeded
Regulates
Heavily
Competition
Market
Government

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I was born under Communism. I know what it's like to live in a system where you can't speak, you have to whisper. Where the state is so pervasive and so intrusive.
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If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.
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It's not that unusual for presidents to take strong positions on cases decided by the court. But you know, Lesley, that's why the Constitution wisely gave us life tenure. They can talk about us, but they can't remove us.
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My advice would be to whoever is going after judges by name, whether it's the president or anybody else, I think it's a terrible idea. I don't think it's a very smart thing to do a Muslim ban.
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When the president, Donald Trump, is a litigant I think it's wise for him not to comment on the judges. It's not going to help anything - and all it's going to do is emphasize the weakness of your position.
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I think the use of lethal injection is the way of lying to ourselves, to make it look like executions are peaceful, are benign, are sort of like going to sleep, and they're not. They're brutal things.
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Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.
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The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ought not to be doing it.
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This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? Due process. We're very proud of it.
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Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.
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Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.
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