Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments. — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
To say that we have to surrender to judicial supremacy is to do what Jefferson warned against, which is, in essence, surrender… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Judicial review has developed since the 1970s as a way for individuals to challenge decisions taken by the State. — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights. — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go… — Wu Bangguo Copy Share Image
He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
There are laws about personal protection so it's rare to see a politician criticized. Normally, according to the law, there's a judicial… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts,… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
I think the President of the United States must operate by rules. I think our judicial system must operate by the rules.… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I think how badly things can go wrong in our judicial system. All it took was one person saying that this was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If you and I go into a store to rob it, and I say "shoot," that's not protected. Like all judicial decisions… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
You can be sure that Judicial Watch is investigating and monitoring the responses of our government to the coronavirus threat. — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description. — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Constitution provides for one democratic moment, Judge, before a lifetime of judicial independence, when the people of the United States are… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
We are deeply concerned about the situation in Russia with regards to human rights. There are several examples of this situation, such… — Cecilia Malmstrom Copy Share Image
Supreme Court nominees should know that this exercise of judicial restraint is the key ingredient of being good judge, as the Constitution… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
How do you get from, "We do not know whether this is protectable human life," to "Therefore, we will not protect it?"… — John Piper Copy Share Image
It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, if you look at its website, it basically deals with commercial disputes, it's not allowed to deal with… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Community Relations Service would be another pro-civil rights Federal agency attempting to make people do what the policy of the Federal… — John Sparkman Copy Share Image
The problem is when [the state] monitor all of us, en masse, all of the time, without any specific justification for intercepting… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image