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The retention of the power to punish for contempt for acts of speech alone, which do not directly interfere with the administration of justice,…

— Prashant Bhushan

The rule of law and the independence of the judiciary underpin our democracy and lie at the heart of our way of life. They…

— David Lidington

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent…

— Andrew Jackson

“The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the Bench and…

— Munindra Misra

The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an…

— Anonymous

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy…

— Anonymous

My concerns through the years increased about the concerns of an independent judiciary and how we maintain it. Certainly in the states. I'm a…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and…

— Joseph Sobran

What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are…

— Rachel Maddow

If you leave out the magnetic stardom of sportsmen and actors, middle-class India today really has just two heroes - the army and the…

— Barkha Dutt

[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.

— Alexander Bickel

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…

— James Madison

I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an…

— Barack Obama

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have…

— Rose Bird

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is…

— Michael Ignatieff