The Constitution’s flexibility in emergency is why the late Justice Robert H. Jackson once said, “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” But emergencies do not cause the Constitution to vanish.
” . . . constitutional rights are not luxuries. They are key to the functioning of our society.”
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