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Edwin Meese III (born December 2, 1931) is an American attorney, law professor, author and member of the Republican Party who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration (1967–1974), the Reagan Presidential Transition Team (1980) and the Reagan White House (1981–1985), eventually rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of the United States (1985–1988).

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Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

Branches, Court, Government

Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections.

Ensure, Innovation, Justice, Legacy, Pernicious, Resignation

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

Doubt, House, Reasonable, White

As a former U. S. attorney general under President Reagan, and a former Ohio secretary of state, we would like to say something that might strike some as obvious: Those who oppose photo voter-ID laws and other election-integrity reforms are intent on making it easier to commit vote fraud.

Integrity, Law, Obvious, Ohio, Reagan, State

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.

Binding, Court, Government, Land, Law

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Contradictory, Crime, Innocent, Person, Suspect

Ascribing racial animus to people who are trying to safeguard democratic integrity is a crude yet effective political tactic that obscures the truth. But there's something even worse than name-calling: legal interference from Washington with valid laws.

Crude, Effective, Integrity, Law, Names, Political

Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.

Club, Clubs, Country, Nicaragua, Terrorist

I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.

College, General, Names, Pieces, Say

U. S News: You criticize the Miranda ruling, which gives suspects the right to have a lawyer present before police questioning. Shouldn't people, who may be innocent, have such protection? Meese: Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Giving, Innocent, News, People, Police, Protection

The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.

Decision, Ideas, Infamous, Person, Police, Questions

The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.

Accepting, Appeal, Decision, Everyone, Judgment, Uncritically

That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite claims to the contrary by Mr. Holder and his allies. As more states adopt such laws, the left has railed against them with increasing fury, even invoking the specter of the Jim Crow era to describe electoral safeguards common to most nations, including in the Third World.

Common, Crow, Holder, Jim, Law, Voting

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

Gives, Giving, Home, Responsibility, Slides

[Nuclear war]. . . may not be desirable.

Desirable, May, Nuclear, War