Apply Quote by Wendy Long

The judges are subject to the law.

— Yoav Gallant

Our role as judges is to interpret the law.

— Thomas Hardiman

Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect the rights…

— Jed S. Rakoff

“Judges ought to remember that their office is to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.”

— Francis Bacon

The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge…

— Alan Paton

Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.

— William Henry Maule

Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the…

— Orrin Hatch

The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them.

— Giulio Andreotti

Judges should follow the law in deciding cases - not their own values, good or bad.

— Wendy Long

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

— Mike DeWine

Perhaps most important, judges will have goals. And because this is so, judges will often try to mold and steer the law in order…

— Elena Kagan

I don't have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend…

— Jed S. Rakoff