Allowing Quote by Joseph Sobran

Constitutions are violated, and it would be absurd to expect the federal government to enforce the Constitution against itself. If the very federal judges…

— John Taylor

The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above…

— Patrick Leahy

Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it can also…

— Murray Rothbard

When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial…

— Mark Levin

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

— Don Willett

Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances…

— Patrick Henry

While abolishing judgeships and lower federal courts is a blunt tool and one whose use is warranted only in the most extreme of circumstances...…

— Newt Gingrich

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

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

I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I also feel…

— Rick Santorum

The Court's decision reflects the philosophy that judges should endure whatever interpretive distortions it takes in order to correct a supposed flaw in the…

— Antonin Scalia

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

— Stewart Udall