Authority Quote by Mark Levin

[The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny . . .

— Edward Gibbon

[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Judges should always behave judicially by adjudicating, never politically by legislating. I leave policy to policymakers. They're preeminent, but they're not omnipotent. In other…

— Don Willett

If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to…

— William Blackstone

The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or…

— Nina Totenberg

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

Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has…

— Joseph Sobran

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

— James Madison

All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is…

— Fred Rodell

The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon…

— John Adams

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