Action Quote by Chuck Grassley

For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are…

— Felix Frankfurter

There is one kind of judge. There is an independent judge under our Constitution.

— Brett Kavanaugh

Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.

— A. V. Dicey

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

— Don Willett

One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions…

— Jeff Greenfield

[Louis] Brandeis is often painted as an acolyte of judicial restraint, or the view that judges should uphold laws whether or not they like…

— Jeffrey Rosen

The American people have made clear that they want justices who have proven records of judicial restraint - exactly the kind of justices that…

— Wendy Long

“I have long held that judicial restraint, expressed through a well-reasoned rejection, is at times the most efficient form of justice; preserving both time…

— Henrietta Newton Martin-Legal Professional & Author

Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.

— Adam Cohen

“Severability is an important concept in the context of the relations between this Court and Parliament; like 'reading down', it is an instrument of…

— Albie Sachs

Conservatives who care about nominations of judges who practice judicial restraint are, constitutionally, restrained people themselves.

— Wendy Long

Good judges are always open to the possibility of changing their minds based on the next brief that they read, or the next argument…

— Samuel Alito

I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could trust. I'm…

— Laurel Nakadate

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not beindependent of the people, but…

— Anonymous

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people,…

— Andrew Jackson