On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.
Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.
They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country.
I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.
Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for a long time, and it's illegal in most countries - in the air controller strike.
But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.
My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.
Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.
Jefferson and Washington had no idea these idiots would exist, otherwise they would not have made killing illegal.
State and federal laws protect whistle-blowers, those who refuse to do something illegal, and workers who file claims for workers' compensation.
I didn't come into politics to have to deal with the issue of clandestine entry, illegal working, or an asylum system that allows a free run for right-wing bigots.
An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.
I feel like I gave my son to this country in an illegal and immoral war, and I'll never get him back.
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.
You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.
