Congress Quote by Robert Bork

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

More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms…

— Antonin Scalia

A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as…

— John C. Calhoun

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

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 people can change Congress but only God can change the Supreme Court.

— George W. Norris

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 do not believe it is the function of the judiciary to step in and change the law because the times have changed. I…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its…

— James Bryce

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

“On behalf of the deference under the Administrative Procedure Act, it is said that Congress is not constitutionally barred from authorizing deference—as if Congress…

— Philip Hamburger

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

— Benjamin Franklin Fairless