#judiciary

The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#bipartisan #committee #conducted #extremely #invitation

Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#aware #committee #documents #formal #i

I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#believe #colleagues #courts #difficult #divergent

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. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

#judges #judiciary #liberty #our #property

My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary. ↗

— Victor Ponta

#independence #judiciary #promised #respect

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

— Samuel Alito

#congress #equal #fully #i #i think

"Empathy" is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. ↗

— Karl Rove

#backlash #branch #clay #code #constitution

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#any #been #cautious #century #character

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. ↗

— Rose Bird

#hear #judiciary #like #may #moment

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. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#been #campaigning #committee #get #hearings