Quotes About Judicial system

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

During the HIV epidemic, newspapers had questioned public health pronouncements and warned against government overreach. As early as June 1983, the New York Times had published an opinion piece titled "AIDS and Civil Liberties," citing the "danger that the judicial and political systems will fall prey to the irrational demands of a frightened public and impose groundless and onerous regulations that result in the widespread loss of freedom."39

Would it have been an improvement of the plan, to have united the Supreme Court with the Senate, in the formation of the court of impeachments? This union would certainly have been attended with several advantages; but would they not have been overbalanced by the signal disadvantage, already stated, arising from the agency of the same judges in the double prosecution to which the offender would be liable?

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

I didn't feel at all guilty about what I did, so I couldn't plead guilty, even though I would get a more lenient sentence.

We are a nation of laws, and breaking those laws have consequences.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

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.

In the 1990s, there was a lot of reform, and there was a lot of forward movement on a lot of fronts in Russia. There was fundamental economic reform. There was a new constitution and an electoral system built from scratch. But the judicial system was probably the most difficult to reform.

The American justice system administers punishment. It does not conduct inquests and it does not find facts.

If death row is a sharp punishment, life without parole can be an endless torture.

work by George Grant called Legislating Immorality, which called for the execution of all gay people, but was kind enough to qualify it in a footnote by saying that in our judicial system we would have to give them a trial first.

Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

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Si no está la mitad del país en la cárcel por corrupción es porque Pablo pagó siempre en efectivo, nunca en cheques»,

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

The problem with money bail, for those who aren't familiar with it, is that it puts a price tag on freedom. It says to someone who is wealthy that no matter how dangerous you are, you can buy your way out.

We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons.

A well-functioning judicial or education system is just as much part of the wealth of a nation as its roads, ports and factories.