The sword of contempt has kept the judiciary away from searching public scrutiny, particularly within the mainstream media. The judiciary is obviously… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
If you want to amplify the data that you have, you need media, you need lawyers, you need the judiciary. Especially when… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee,… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently -… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature,… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media.… — Edi Rama Copy Share Image
Of course, in the states, about half the states elect their judges, and that's an even more direct involvement with politics. But… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in… — Alberto Gonzales Copy Share Image
[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Turkish judiciary has a very strong nationalist tradition, which is gradually changing, but only gradually. And since there was a nationalist… — Andrew Mango Copy Share Image
President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
Over the years, the judiciary has expanded its own powers by creative interpretations of the Constitution, particularly Article 21 which guarantees the… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
As individuals are best off believing they control their behaviour, the judiciary is best off imputing that control - barring powerful extenuating… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department… — James Madison Copy Share Image
My work on the Judiciary Committee has made me more aware of the InfoWars content than when I appeared previously in a… — Matt Gaetz Copy Share Image
Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was… — Alfredo Stroessner Copy Share Image
In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Having enjoyed enormous powers, including the power of contempt, without any accountability, the higher judiciary has over the years, trampled the toes… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
“The judiciary, by its interpretation of the Constitution, plays a significant role in changing the destiny of the nation and which it… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself,… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers set up the American judiciary as a check on the excesses of the elected branches and as a refuge… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
We call on the Senate to reject any judicial nominee who does not affirm fundamental civil rights, including a woman's right [to… — Susana Martinez Copy Share Image
One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court's non-transparent attitude on the disclosure of assets is in line with the judiciary's steadfast refusal to allow any transparency… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is… — Joseph Estrada Copy Share Image
![“[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cfa/thomas-jefferson-43_action_t-he-opinion-which-gives-to-the-judges-t_2055401.jpg)
![“[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper.” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b14/james-madison-373_character_r-efusing-or-not-refusing-to-execute-a-l_2378388.png)
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![“One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/934/thomas-jefferson-43_endless_one-single-object-will-merit-the-endless_340610.jpg)
