Judicial Quotes

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

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

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

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

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.

If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review.

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.

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

I have 100 percent confidence in the German judicial system.

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

When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it, one discovers without difficulty that a more immense judicial power has never been constituted in any people.

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

As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.

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

Chávez inherited a dysfunctional judicial system and more or less regional (that is to say: bad) crime rates. He leaves an anarchic judicial system and horrendous crime rates. He neglected, bungled, and politicized policing, the courts and the jails.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked.

To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.

Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.

Judge [Samuel] Alito, I'll tell you the same thing I told John Roberts. I expect you to adhere to the Code of Judicial Conduct.

On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in usurped powers, might subvert forever, and beyond the possible reach of any rightful remedy, the very Constitution which all were instituted to preserve.

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.