#judicial

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#activist #agenda #ahead #hard #ideological

If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#bay #chamber #fall #guantanamo #guantanamo bay

JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military. ↗

— Catherine Bell

#general #jag #judge #judicial #judicial system

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. ↗

— Robert Bork

#because #change #congress #constitution #constitutional

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees. ↗

— John Cornyn

#being used #bipartisan #blocks #here #i

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#certainly #continue #continues #democracy #exporting

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#cherish #clause #conservatives #equal #equal protection

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#against #always #claim #conservatives #course

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

— Michael Kinsley

#another #averted #been #conservative #danger

The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#appointment #believe #consensus #conservative #does