jurists

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He has constantly maintained that when jurists interpret statutes, words are to be given the meaning that an ordinary English speaker would have understood them to possess when Congress enacted the statute.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

As I’ve written in the past, Rakoff is one of our most percipient jurists about the impact of new technologies on the law.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

The level of indignation, courtesy of the masterly Bellocchio, may be even more than a viewer will be comfortable with; the cynical perspective of so many Milanese jurists is appalling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

The integrity of our system of justice and the judicial system is based on the trust that people place in the jurists that populate that branch, the third branch of government.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2025

We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.”

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry