Chávez inherited a dysfunctional judicial system and more or less regional (that is to say: bad) crime rates. He leaves an anarchic… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our entire judicial system in Liberia has broken down because of the many years of lawlessness, indiscipline and warfare. We need more… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Copy Share Image
I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army… — Kirby Page Copy Share Image
I think it's important to bring somebody from outside the system, the judicial system, somebody that hasn't been on the bench and,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Some have argued that the President is required to get permission from a federal court before taking action against a United States… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
The confidentiality of the judicial process would not matter greatly to an understanding and evaluation of the legal system if the consequences… — Richard Posner 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
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other… — Alan Dershowitz 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
An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment… — Jed S. Rakoff 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
We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I was certainly naïve about the judicial system in America. There's a lot of people who are in prison who are innocent.… — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
We should evaluate judges and judicial nominees based on the general process for applying the law to any legal disputes, not on… — Orrin Hatch 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
President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution!… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must use a judicial, rather than a political, standard to evaluate [a nominee's] fitness for the Supreme Court. That standard must… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] rejected the [George] Bush administration's claim that it could indefinitely detain a United States citizen. She upheld… — Patrick Leahy 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
No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real,… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
In fact cycling has always been 'saved' by judicial investigations and not by the anti-doping controls we put in place. That's the… — David Millar Copy Share Image
It's not just that Miers has zero judicial experience. It's that she's so transparently a crony/"diversity" pick while so many other vastly… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Much of the Constitution is remarkably simple and straightforward - certainly as compared to the convoluted reasoning of judges and law professors… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
We're dealing with that question now, in the media. How does the judicial system work? There's never going to be a clear-cut… — Mike Colter 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
The Singapore judicial system's shameful recourse to using torture - in the form of caning - to punish crimes that should be… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
On the one hand we want to preserve the integrity of the judicial branch, and we want to talk about judicial independence,… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
The monument serves to remind the appellate courts and judges of the circuit and district courts of this state and members of… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
Will now allow Reno to claim she is doing a vigorous investigation of campaign financing, when in reality Judicial Watch's public depositions… — Larry Klayman Copy Share Image
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