Quotes About Judiciary

Of course, the Supreme Court's work is vital not just to a region of the country, but to the whole, vital to the protection of the people's liberties under law and to the continuity of our Constitution, the greatest charter of human liberty the world has ever known.

Classroom Activities 1. Using felt and yarn, make a hand puppet of Clarence Thomas . Ta-da! You're Antonin Scalia !

Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.

Apa gunanya memaki? Mereka memang anjing. Mereka memang binatang. Dulu bisa mengadu, dulu ada pengadilan. Dulu ada polisi, kalau duit kita dicolong tetangga kita. Apa sekarang? Hakim-hakim, jaksa-jaksa yang sekarang juga nyolong kita punya. Siapa mesti mengadili kalau hakim dan jaksanya sendiri pencuri?

Democracy only has substance if there's the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be counted, and they are counted. If they believe that there's a judiciary out there that will make sense of things if there's some challenge. If there isn't rule of law, people will be afraid to vote the way they want to vote.

They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it.

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.

Not wanting to suffer criticism, the judiciary has used its power of contempt to stifle criticism.

What's the use of an admirable form of government if political parties and moneyed interests control it? What's the use of our judicial system, if judges only quote precedents and ignore first principles? What's the use of a Supreme Court if it's swayed by the political winds of the hour?

The wisecrack around the building was that Gorsuch had succeeded in unifying the Court: Just about everybody other than Thomas couldn't stand him most of the time.

It was this case," Roosevelt later said, "which first waked me to . . . the fact that the courts were not necessarily the best judges of what should be done to better social and industrial conditions.

Hey, is there something in this water?' he said. 'Er, no, m'lud,' said the Court Usher who had brought it to him, rather nervously. 'Then take it away,' snapped Judiciary Pag, 'and put something in it. I got an idea.

We have judicial system in Sudan. Anyone who committed a war crime, anti-human crime, or any other crime will be locked up.

To hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, you'd think the most successful Supreme Court justices had been warm, collegial consensus-builders. But history tells a different story.

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

In March 1973 the government appointed a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. In the past, once a chief justice retired, the most senior member of the bench took his place. This time, Justice A. N. Ray was elevated while three colleagues were ahead of him. The choice was politically motivated, a manifestation of the government's increasing desire to control the judiciary.

If you're president, it's often your court appointments that seal your legacy with a capital L.

I am a stalwart supporter of the British judiciary who are the best in the world.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.

I, for one, want to see Mr. Cruz as a Supreme Court appointee.

What many people, I think, don't really understand is how much their rights really turn on the interpretation of the Supreme Court.

I was interested in law and wanted to be a Supreme Court judge. We see so many pending cases in India and people are not getting justice.

It's the people's Supreme Court, and we should let them decide its direction.