Authority Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon…

— Alexander Hamilton

Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to…

— Mike DeWine

In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes.…

— Orrin Hatch

“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

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative…

— Yochai Benkler

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

Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse. Yet our…

— Nina Totenberg

The nature of constitutional delegations of power is that they entitle the empowered official to do certain things that other people can't do.

— Benjamin Wittes

[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

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

— Edwin Meese

As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment…

— Byron White