Judiciary Quotes

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All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

I think that Congress's ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.

So long as we mayhavean independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.

I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians.

The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary.

An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to uphold.

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

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

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is, every time.

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.

[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.

The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

The FBI with their heavy influence on the judiciary system has successfully blocked me on every turn.

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

You can have an elected parliament that makes laws, but if the judiciary is appointed by the Supreme Leader - who is a representative of God - then you're kind of at an impasse.

The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above the Supreme Court.

It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.

The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.

The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.

Just look at the Judiciary Committee, You have some people on the Judiciary Committee who may well decide not to send the nomination to the floor, and now it all depends on what Democrats do.

[Leftists] have all these embeds in their bureaucracy and in the judiciary. So even when they lose elections they have ample positions of power occupied by career invisibles.

When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.

It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.

Judiciary is where my passion is.

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought.

Judgment does not necessarily relate to the judiciary system

The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the Bench and Bar shoulder their responsibilities seriously.

Power does not pardon, power punishes.