Quotes of: Judicial-activism Keyword

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

Michael Kinsley

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Ernest Istook

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

Stockwell Day

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

Michael Kinsley

Judicial activism, by definition, is a term applied to judges who render decisions with which you disagree.

The Tsunami That Reshaped America

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 ...

Michael Kinsley

As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.

P. Sathasivam

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

Adam Smith

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

Catherine Bell

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have.

Sonny Landham

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

Severability is an important concept in the context of the relations between this Court and Parliament; like 'reading down', it is an instrument of judicial restraint which reduces the danger of producing an overbroad judicial reaction to overbroad l...

Albie Sachs

Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the...

George Will

The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial...

John Marshall

One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, j...

Jeff Greenfield

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.

Sonia Sotomayor

Judicious absence is a weapon.

Charles Reade

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.

Eric Holder

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

Gary Bauer