Decision Quote by Deborah Rhode

I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And…

— Deborah Rhode

Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

— James Toback

I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

A judicial standard means that a judicious decision can be entirely correct, even when the result does not line up with our preferred political…

— Orrin Hatch

The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled.

— Jay Leno

On the one hand we want to preserve the integrity of the judicial branch, and we want to talk about judicial independence, and how…

— Dahlia Lithwick

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception…

— Samuel Alito

There are actually many justices in history who have used the dissent mechanism to discuss the law in ways that others find over time…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand

— George Washington

We must remember that judicial nominees are constrained in what they may discuss and how they may discuss it.

— Orrin Hatch

With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them - with each decision that is unabashedly based…

— Antonin Scalia