Loretta Lynch Quotes

'tis enough to make Laws to punish Crimes when they are committed, and not to put it in the power of any single Man, on pretence of preventing Offences to commit worse.

I simply apply the law fairly and equally to all our citizens.

Yet far from putting any meaningful constraints on law enforcement in this war, the U.S. Supreme Court has given the police license to stop and search just about anyone, in any public place, without a shred of evidence of criminal activity, and it has also closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the judicial process from stops and searches to plea bargaining and sentencing.

It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

The power to investigate and prosecute is the power to destroy.

Law enforcement does not ask an advantage in its struggle with the lawless. It asks only that the scales of justice be balanced. The cause of justice is not served when hardened criminals are allowed to go free through legal technicalities.

Justice in this country is an insurance policy. It’s not something that we’re supposed to get sometimes.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America.

The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.

We all need good laws, and an independent, impartial, and efficient judiciary to verify the constitutionality of those laws.

It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone.

The police have the right to prosecute people, but not use violence.

Lack of lawful access certainly affects our ability to do our jobs, but we know where the harm really falls when evidence is kept unavailable - it falls on innocent people, the people we're sworn to protect.

It is time to go on the offense. Hold people accountable for the wrongdoings they do and commit against the American people, use the vestiges of the Constitution which gives us the outline of how we hold them accountable and make the Justice Department do their job.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.

When the police officers knock on your door with a warrant, they don't expect you to give them a tour. It's supposed to be an adversarial process so that it's used in these extraordinary powers are applied only when there's no alternative. Only when they're absolutely necessary, and only when they're proportionate to the threat faced by these individuals.

[T]he guilty as well as the innocent are entitled to due process of law. They are entitled to a fair trial. They are entitled to counsel. They are entitled to fair treatment from the police. The law enforcement officer has the same duty as the citizen-indeed, he has a higher duty-to abide by the letter and spirit of our Constitution and laws. You yourselves must be careful to obey the letter of the law. You yourselves must be intellectually honest in the enforcement of the law.

The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.

God forbid that the defendant should not be allowed the benefit of every advantage he is entitled to by law.

I don’t care about human rights, believe me. There is no due process in my mouth.

Historically our government—the FBI for example—has not always earned that trust.

I believe that even if a criminal defendant has committed a heinous wrong, they should still be treated with respect from everyone in the criminal justice system, including prosecutors

I think we ought to leave the law exactly the way it is, the 14th amendment.

Rule of law is based on probable cause.