Quotes About Law

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

The best way to have empathy for people and the best way to have empathy for our Constitution is to appoint judges who will rule based on the law and to have empathy, if you will, for the law only and to rule based on the law.

Judges should interpret the law, not make it.

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 the law to reach their particular predilections.

Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.

I am a great admirer of most of the judges in Britain.

Our role as judges is to interpret the law.

Judges should decide legal disputes. Judges should not make law.

When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you didn't know whether you'd won or whether you'd lost.

Independent judges have always frustrated governments that don't see why unelected arbiters of the law should stand in their way.

The Gospel declares that our guilt has been atoned for, the law has been fulfilled. So we don't need to live under the burden of trying to appease the judgment we feel.

We have a problem with judicial activism in this country.

I've learned that the Court will continue to change the meaning of the Constitution. Although all of the Justices have expressed the importance of judicial restraint, the Court inevitably makes new law every time it interprets the Constitution.

We all have trust in the judicial systems.

If judicial review means anything, it is that judicial restraint does not allow everything.

Judicial review has developed since the 1970s as a way for individuals to challenge decisions taken by the State.

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

I have faith in the judicial system.

Judiciary is where my passion is.

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.