If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.
Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.
I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
Laws are subordinate to custom.
I think more important than law is the hearts of people.
If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.
Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power.