Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
I personally believe technology can transform the functioning of the judicial system. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial… — Deborah Rhode 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
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived… — Bayley Copy Share Image
Either Christ is a liar or war is never necessary, and very properly assuming that Christ told the truth, it follows that… — Ben Salmon Copy Share Image
Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The Federalist Society is this conservative legal organization. And I think, for the Bush administration, being a member of the Federalist Society… — Josh Marshall Copy Share Image
I know my judicial role is further constrained by careful adherence to precedent. — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise -… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Ending up in the right place in this debate requires starting in the right place. The right place to start is the… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted… — Jim Bunning Copy Share Image
To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Yahweh demanded justice for the poor, compassion and equality for foreigners and refugees, systemic redress for poverty, structural mechanisms to protect the… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall... I say to you, my friends, let… — Fob James Copy Share Image