#judicial

Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#government #judicial-power #republicanism #separation-of-powers #men

We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#bar #both #group #hand #institution

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#challenge #failed #judicial #judicial activism #meet

Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#believe #constitutional #doubt #each #ever

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#atrophies #available #becomes #cases #daily

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

— Irving R. Kaufman

#about #ever #expensive #finding #happened

The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#decisions #forced #his #inaccurate #judge

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#committee #constructing #council #decision #finds

The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches. ↗

— John Witherspoon

#branches #character #either #executive #general

We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court system that's crying out for more judges. ↗

— Joe Lockhart

#crying #dozens #judges #judicial #more