United States v. Vega-Santiago

(Reserving and Dissenting).

The circumstances that force me to state my views at this time leave me no alternative but to partially emulate Justice Felix Frankfurter’s response to similar constraints, about which he stated:

Time is required not only for the primary task of analyzing in detail the materials on which the Court relies. It is equally required for adequate reflection upon the meaning of these materials and their bearing on the issues now before the Court. Reflection is a slow process. Wisdom, like good wine, requires maturing.

Moreover, the judgments of this Court are collective…