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Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law. -- Lamar S. Smith
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. -- Felix Frankfurter
Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years. -- Ron Kind
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is. -- John Marshall
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority. -- Diane Watson
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others. -- Jonathan Sacks
Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems. -- Timothy Murphy
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. -- Robert Bork
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. -- Alan Dershowitz
Monitor, transparently, and enforce the separation of Democracy powers: Legislative; Executive; Judicial -- Miguel Reynolds Brandao
Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power. -- Herb Kohl
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is." -- John Marshall
You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution. -- Ted Cruz
Judge [Samuel] Alito, I'll tell you the same thing I told John Roberts. I expect you to adhere to the Code of Judicial Conduct. -- Jon Kyl
Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority. -- James Madison
The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. -- Charles Tupper
The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council." -- Charles Tupper
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature. -- George Minot
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature. -- George Minot
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red. -- Marya Mannes
. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments. -- Alexander Hamilton
Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system. -- George Washington
Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each must in the exercise of its functions be guided by the text of the Constitution according to its own interpretation of it. -- James Madison
Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked. -- Joseph Sobran
Judicial excellence means that a Supreme Court justice must have a sense of the values from which our core of our political- economic system goes. In other words, we should not approve any nominee whose extreme judicial philosophy would undermine rights and liberties relied upon by all Americans. -- Herb Kohl
If Americans loved judicial activism, liberals wouldn't be lying about what it is. Judicial activism means making up constitutional rights in order to strike down laws the justices don't like based on their personal preferences. It's not judicial activism to strike down laws because they violate the Constitution. -- Ann Coulter
Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism. -- Stockwell Day
The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. -- Eric Holder
The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid. -- Lyn Nofziger
The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention. -- James Toback
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. -- Irving Kaufman
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. -- Irving Kaufman
In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities. -- Gijs de Vries
The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression. -- Leopoldo Lopez
The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says. -- John Marshall
Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath. -- John Roberts
The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial. -- Irving R. Kaufman
President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited. -- Alan Dershowitz
The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements. -- John Marshall Harlan
In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions. -- Abraham Lincoln
To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. -- Che Guevara
If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review. -- Robin Hayes
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view. -- Henrik Ibsen
The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling. -- H. L. Mencken
It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each...This is of the very essence of judicial duty. -- John Marshall
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences. -- George Will
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. -- Michael Kinsley
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance. -- Randy Quaid
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty. -- John Marshall
Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny. -- Patrick Henry
The monument serves to remind the appellate courts and judges of the circuit and district courts of this state and members of the bar who appear before them as well as the people of Alabama who visit the Alabama Judicial Building of the truth stated in the preamble of the Alabama Constitution, that in order to establish justice we must invoke the favor and guidance of Almighty God. -- Roy Moore
The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility. -- Felix Frankfurter
My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too. -- William O. Douglas
The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process. -- Eric Holder
I have 100 percent confidence in the German judicial system. -- Bernie Ecclestone
To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed. -- Felix Frankfurter
Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism. -- Michael Kinsley
Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America. -- Ernest Istook
I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution -- Saxby Chambliss
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle. -- Gary Bauer
Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box. -- Rush Limbaugh
When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions. -- Newt Gingrich
So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned. -- Michael Kinsley
I'll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process. -- Bill Belichick
A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages. -- John Yoo
Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments. -- Paul Weyrich
JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military. -- Catherine Bell
American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review. -- Cornel West
JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military -- Catherine Bell
We must apply a judicial rather than a political standard to the information before us [if choosing a Judge]. -- Orrin Hatch
We must remember that judicial nominees are constrained in what they may discuss and how they may discuss it. -- Orrin Hatch
When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself. -- Daniel Webster
If we are giving judicial benefits to one part, we should give them to the other part as well. -- Juan Manuel Santos
Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand. -- Aristotle
Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed. -- Thomas Sowell
An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. -- DMX
Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany. -- Benjamin Carson
Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget. -- Phyllis Schlafly
There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme. -- David Souter
That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case. -- Andrew Thomas
One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero. -- Felix Frankfurter
The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights. -- Herb Kohl
He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster. -- Nat Hentoff
Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty. -- Robert H. Jackson
This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description. -- Orrin Hatch
We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster. -- Elizabeth Warren
Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is. -- Alex Kozinski
People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus. -- Martin Mayer
I would never filibuster any President's judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote. -- Saxby Chambliss
Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall... I say to you, my friends, let it fall! -- Fob James
To say that we have to surrender to judicial supremacy is to do what Jefferson warned against, which is, in essence, surrender to judicial tyranny. -- Mike Huckabee
Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point. -- Ann Coulter
[Louis] Brandeis is often painted as an acolyte of judicial restraint, or the view that judges should uphold laws whether or not they like them. -- Jeffrey Rosen
Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and worsening corruption of institutions. -- Rory Carroll
No judicial nomination should answer any question that is designed to reveal how the nominee will rule on any issue that could come before the court. -- Jon Kyl
No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law. -- Wu Bangguo
[Nicolas Maduro] completely controls the judicial branch, controls the courts, has denied their basic rights and the responsibility that the legislative branch has in that country. -- Marco Rubio
The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches. -- John Witherspoon
Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would restrict our rights and freedoms. -- Dick Durbin
Individuals because of their identity can't render an impartial judgment is just deeply offensive and contrary to all the ideals of the judicial system that we value. -- Deborah Rhode
When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that's tyranny. -- Mark Levin
A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it. -- Sam Ervin
The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their judicial oath. And taking the role of policy makers and legislators, rather than being judges. -- Ted Cruz
In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner. -- Kirby Page
The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number. -- Alexander Hamilton
Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today. -- John Ensign
If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial. -- George Eliot
I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends about judicial independence. -- Deborah Rhode
I was certainly naÃ¯ve about the judicial system in America. There's a lot of people who are in prison who are innocent. The system is very flawed. -- Sam Rockwell
[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens. -- Robert Bork

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