Administration Quote by David B. Rivkin

I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

— David Brooks

When presidents decide to litigate an issue to protect their policy decisions, they are more likely to act judiciously, and with an eye toward…

— Asha Rangappa

The courts were afraid to challenge executive declarations of what would happen. Now, over the last year, we have seen - in almost every…

— Edward Snowden

“The president and his subordinates at the Department of Justice have used the executive’s awesome law enforcement power, including its access to vast sums…

— Andrew McCarthy

“However, this court is constrained by law, and under the law, I can only conclude that the Government has not violated FOIA by refusing…

— Colleen McMahon

The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their…

— Alexander Hamilton

“The power to enforce the law, which carries with it the equally salient power not to enforce the law, is a president’s most imposing…

— Andrew McCarthy

We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy…

— Alberto Gonzales

Unfortunately, once a person who is willing to act against the interests of the United States assumes the awesome powers of the presidency, the…

— Asha Rangappa

It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ...…

— Anthony Romero

When a federal court issues an order against enforcement of a government policy, the ruling traditionally applies only to the plaintiff in that case.

— William Barr

“That is no exercise of prosecutorial discretion, a doctrine designed to protect our liberties from overbearing law, not to subject us to legal jeopardy…

— Andrew McCarthy