Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The most powerful country in world history, which is sure to set its stamp on what follows, placed the entire government (executive,… — Noam Chomsky 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
The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to… — Kapil Sibal 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
Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and… — Rory Carroll 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
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life,… — Kofi Annan 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 was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
But then a daring evasion by a leading conveyancer, known as the Lease and Release, received judicial sanction; and commenced a successful… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
You can understand why the original framers of judicial ethics thought it would be undignified and would call into question the legitimacy… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for… — Sonny Landham Copy Share Image
The lack of judicial accountability exemplified by the lack of a system of selecting judges and of dealing with complaints against them,… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
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
The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the… — Gary North Copy Share Image
I hope that the American public understands that we have three levels of government. We have the (unintelligible) the executive, but there's… — Stockard Channing 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
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by… — Anonymous 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
It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that… — Anonymous 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
The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is… — Leopoldo Lopez Copy Share Image
Scorecards are common in the political process, but they are inappropriate in the judicial process. The most important tools in the judicial… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
[Nicolas Maduro] completely controls the judicial branch, controls the courts, has denied their basic rights and the responsibility that the legislative branch… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image