Richard Posner Quote

When urgent considerations of the public safety require compromise with the normal principles constraining law enforcement, the normal principles may have to bend. The Constitution is not a suicide pact.


Decision in Edmond v. Goldsmith, U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals (1999)


When urgent considerations of the public safety require compromise with the normal principles constraining law enforcement, the normal principles may ...

When urgent considerations of the public safety require compromise with the normal principles constraining law enforcement, the normal principles may ...

When urgent considerations of the public safety require compromise with the normal principles constraining law enforcement, the normal principles may ...

When urgent considerations of the public safety require compromise with the normal principles constraining law enforcement, the normal principles may ...