Quotes About Judicial

Actually, he said, it's not my job to improve things here, as you put it, and if you said that to someone like the examining magistrate you'd be laughed at or punished. I certainly wouldn't have become involved in these matters of my own free will, and I would never have lost any sleep over the shortcomings of this judicial system. But because I was supposedly placed under arrest - I've been arrested, you see - I've been forced to take action in my own behalf.

The books must be law books and it's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance.

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.

I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.

I have a pretty good record of winning in court.

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

Son, when I appoint a nigger to the bench, I want everybody to know he's a nigger. [Said to an aide in 1965 regarding the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as associate justice of the Supreme Court]

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

The judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.

Malcolm Muggeridge famously said that "without God we are left with a choice of succumbing to megalomania or erotomania."3 The court's majority, in declaring by sheer judicial fiat the equal dignity under law of the family and sodomy, would appear to have gone Muggeridge one better by succumbing to both at once.

Every judicial verdict on whatever crime defines and describes the context and conception of the law and executes transparent justice accordingly. Whereas, the presiding judge and a panel of judges stay away from their personal feelings of perception, sympathy, anger, or revenge on any point and measure; otherwise, verdict falls under the failure of fair-decision and becomes morally and legally ineffective and invalid.

The Security Council's veto embarrasses and ignores the United Nations core principle of small and large states equality; indeed, it's the judicial truth.

Todos en el juzgado parecían estar inoculados en contra de la crítica y la autocrítica; unos se rascaban las costillas, otros los sobacos, las mujeres se arreglaban un tirante del brasier, pujando. (...) Total, que si ninguno se veía a sí mismo, ninguno veía tampoco a los demás.

Without any direction from Congress, our judicial branch has unilaterally created and defined qualified immunity.

The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.

Unlike national legal systems, there are precious few avenues to address judicial activism at the WTO. You pretty much have to gain consensus to change the agreements, or simply withdraw from the system. The first is nearly impossible, and the second would be - in the view of many - cataclysmic.

The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Always have these two principles in readiness. First, to do only what the reason inherent in kingly and judicial power prescribes for the benefit of mankind. Second, to change your ground, if in fact there is someone to correct and guide you away from some notion.

The corporate state, Wolin told me, is "legitimated by elections it controls." To extinguish democracy, it rewrites and distorts laws and legislation that once protected democracy. Basic rights are, in essence, revoked by judicial and legislative fiat. Courts and legislative bodies, in the service of corporate power, reinterpret laws to strip them of their original meaning in order to strengthen corporate control and abolish corporate oversight.

that material like Hammurabi's stele imposed no obligations on society or the courts. It did not represent at any level the "law of the land," and there is no call to obey. This assessment is confirmed by the fact that it does not serve as a reference in the judicial system, which is illuminated for us through thousands of court documents.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is…. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each…. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.