Interest Quote by Antonin Scalia

Stare decisis, which is the principle that the Supreme Court uses at the outset - the sort of background rule of judicial maintenance or…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological…

— Felix Frankfurter

I think justices of all stripes agree that stare decisis is important, but not an inextricable command. It's not inflexible; it's not absolute.

— Brett Kavanaugh

Governments can and do expropriate investors or discriminate against them. Domestic judicial and administrative systems provide investors with one option for protecting themselves.

— Jose Angel Gurria

The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society…

— James Madison

The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Stability in law - particularly constitutional law - is critically important; the Supreme Court would do well to remember that.

— Benjamin Wittes

The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way.

— Ovid

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A circuit judge might properly encourage the Supreme Court to reconsider holdings that are confusing or otherwise problematic in application, by pointing out a…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

I had only one idea before me throughout the trial, i.e. to show complete indifference towards the trial in spite of serious nature of…

— Bhagat Singh

Narrow scope of judicial power was the reason that people accepted the idea that the federal courts could have the power of judicial review;…

— Sam Brownback