Judicial Quotes

Judicial Quote of the day

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.

I'll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.

The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.

Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.

Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.

I have 100 percent confidence in the German judicial system.

I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other

If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number.

The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.

The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and worsening corruption of institutions.

No judicial system could do society's work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.

The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

We must remember that judicial nominees are constrained in what they may discuss and how they may discuss it.

No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real. And it comes from the very nature of what judges do.