Judicial Quotes · Page 2

We have a problem with judicial activism in this country.

— Dan Bongino

I want to go into law and eventually have a judicial appointment.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

— Stockwell Day

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

— Thomas Sowell

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear…

— John Marshall

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

— Ernest Istook

I'll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.

— Bill Belichick

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

— Phyllis Schlafly

Without any direction from Congress, our judicial branch has unilaterally created and defined qualified immunity.

— Mike Braun

We must apply a judicial rather than a political standard to the information before us [if choosing a Judge].

— Orrin Hatch

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

If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative,…

— Alexander Hamilton

Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and…

— Rory Carroll

The most powerful country in world history, which is sure to set its stamp on what follows, placed the entire government (executive,…

— Noam Chomsky

The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to…

— Kapil Sibal

Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would…

— Dick Durbin

Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary…

— Thomas Sowell

As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view,…

— Byron White

Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that…

— Stephen Breyer

By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials,…

— Thomas Merton

I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I…

— James Madison

Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once…

— Fred Rodell

Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional…

— George Will

But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more…

— John Paul Stevens

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

It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto…

— George Will

In Liberia, our salary scales are so low that our judicial system has become corrupt over the years. Now, we need to…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

— Newt Gingrich

Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.

— Eric Holder

I have often said there are few responsibilities more important than governors making judicial appointments.

— Phil Scott

I know my judicial role is further constrained by careful adherence to precedent.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

— Cornel West

I had the longest judicial vacancy in the history of the United States - on the Eastern District of North Carolina. Not…

— Richard Burr

If we are giving judicial benefits to one part, we should give them to the other part as well.

— Juan Manuel Santos

Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall... I say to you, my friends, let…

— Fob James

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

— Anonymous

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

— Aristotle

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

— Thomas Jefferson