Branches Quote by Sandra Day O'Connor

It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put forward best…

— Sam Brownback

What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal judiciary. They…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship, and I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together…

— Alan Keyes

I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear. It's all about the Constitution the way it was…

— Donald Trump

On the one hand we want to preserve the integrity of the judicial branch, and we want to talk about judicial independence, and how…

— Dahlia Lithwick

“You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place…

— Thomas Jefferson

Too many of us had to suffer at the hands of a judiciary so independent that it often acted independently of both the basic…

— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

In my opinion, Chief Justice Roberts put it best during his recent confirmation hearings. And he said, and I quote, "The framers were not…

— Mike DeWine

That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution…

— Gerald R. Ford

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

— Todd Akin

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

. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon…

— Alexander Hamilton