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1917–2002 United States

Byron Raymond White (June 8, 1917 – April 15, 2002) won fame both as a football running back and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed to the court by President John F.

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Also known as: Byron R. White, White, Byron, White, Byron R.

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We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.

Harmelin v. Michigan 501 U.S. 957 at 1023 (1991)

As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Byron White (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.