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I might not like a statute... but if you know what to expect, you can plan. The law is static. It's stable. It gives…

— Scott Pruitt

There is no reason to believe that in the face of statutory ambiguity, the meaning of federal law should be settled by the inclinations…

— Cass Sunstein

I should be extremely sorry to find that in a fictitious proceeding, instituted for the more easy attaining of justice, different rules were to…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm not going to comment on other justices' interpretations of the rules or what they're doing.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power…

— Robert Bork

That's not the federal law. What you're confusing is law with the opinion of a justice, what one lone federal judge says is not…

— Roy Moore

It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and…

— Felix Frankfurter

The common law is nothing else but statutes worn out by time

— Russell Baker

You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.

— Robert Greene

“The standard set up by statute is not a rule of law, it is rather a way of life.”

— Telpner

A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent.

— Brett Kavanaugh