Quotes About Judicial system

Modern governments actually spend relatively little on programs and systems that benefit all citizens, such as national defense or the judicial system; mainly they are concerned with infringing on the property rights of one (less politically powerful) group of citizens for the benefit of another (more politically powerful) group.

Among the many sordid legacies that the Trump/Pence administration will leave behind, perhaps the most damaging over the long term may well be the infiltration of America's judicial system with the progeny of the Federalist Society, the Alliance Defending Freedom, and their allies

Lawyers get you out'n the kind of trouble you'd never get in if there was no lawyers.

The Chaits were given everything but a European vacation [by prosecutors] for their testimony and they're just not credible," Padowitz said.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel.

law: innocent until proven guilty as opposed to guilty until proven innocent

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Show me the man and I'll show you the law.

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.

Six or twelve," he sometimes said when he was depressed, which wasn't all the time but often enough that I recognized a blue mood when it was settling in. "That's your fate as a black man. Carried by six or judged by twelve.

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

No one likes lawyers until you need one, at which point they assume the raiment of knights.

There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.

The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted.