Judicial Quotes · Page 3

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

— Lyn Nofziger

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

— Felix Frankfurter

The judicial system is really taking an activist role in preventing Trump from implementing his agenda.

— Dan Crenshaw

Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.

— Benjamin Carson

There's no one who has sued the Trump administration on transparency issues more than Judicial Watch.

— Tom Fitton

When it comes to revamping our bail laws, we can't rely on judicial discretion alone.

— Eric Adams

I would never filibuster any President’s judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to…

— Saxby Chambliss

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

— Herb Kohl

As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the…

— P. Sathasivam

It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a…

— Learned Hand

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms…

— Hassan Rouhani

Supreme Court nominees should know that this exercise of judicial restraint is the key ingredient of being good judge, as the Constitution…

— Chuck Grassley

My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a…

— Paul Watson

Of the judicial department of the Government, the Supreme Court is the head and representative, and to it must come for final…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived…

— Bayley

The debate over judicial nominations is a debate over the judiciary itself. It is a debate over how much power unelected judges…

— Orrin Hatch

Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or…

— Joseph Story

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

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

— George Will

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

— Fred Rodell

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

— James Madison

Abdul Nacer Benbrika's sentence doesn't expire, I'm told, until 2021, but I think it would be invidious for me as the Attorney-General…

— George Brandis

Men must always have distinguished (e.g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one…

— Leo Strauss

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

— George Will

This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.

— Orrin Hatch

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

— Felix Frankfurter

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

— Andrew Thomas

He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster.

— Nat Hentoff

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

— Ron Kind

If judicial review means anything, it is that judicial restraint does not allow everything.

— Don Willett

The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.

— Herb Kohl

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

— Daniel Webster

You can be sure that Judicial Watch is investigating and monitoring the responses of our government to the coronavirus threat.

— Tom Fitton

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

— John Marshall

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

— DMX

Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like…

— Alex Kozinski

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Judicial review has developed since the 1970s as a way for individuals to challenge decisions taken by the State.

— Chris Grayling

I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution

— Saxby Chambliss

I personally believe technology can transform the functioning of the judicial system.

— Kapil Sibal