Books Quote by Ambrose Bierce

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Appellate advocacy, particularly at the Supreme Court, is really intimate. I mean, you're just a few feet away from the Chief Justice. You know,…

— Neal Katyal

“The passage that he had found in the book had been riddled with ambiguities and contradictions only reserved for those most valiant in overriding…

— Ashim Shanker

“You yourself are the judge, you yourself are the lawyer, you yourself are the defendant. Now tell me, what kind of judgment will be…

— Dada Bhagwan

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

— Alan Dershowitz

Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.

— Mason Cooley

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

— Finley Peter Dunne

[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

“It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care…

— Jonathan Swift

“Those who only have the right to judge are those in court and those in contest.”

— Caroline de Leon

My hypothesis is not so much that the court is the natural expression of popular justice, but rather that its historical function is to…

— Michel Foucault

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a…

— Anthony Kennedy