In the age of Trump, we have witnessed an unprecedented…

The retention of the power to punish for contempt for acts of speech alone, which do not directly interfere with the administration of justice,…

— Prashant Bhushan

The rule of law and the independence of the judiciary underpin our democracy and lie at the heart of our way of life. They…

— David Lidington

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent…

— Andrew Jackson

“The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the Bench and…

— Munindra Misra

The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an…

— Anonymous

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy…

— Anonymous

My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and…

— Joseph Sobran

What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are…

— Rachel Maddow

If you leave out the magnetic stardom of sportsmen and actors, middle-class India today really has just two heroes - the army and the…

— Barkha Dutt

[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.

— Alexander Bickel

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…

— James Madison

I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an…

— Barack Obama

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have…

— Rose Bird

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is…

— Michael Ignatieff