Quotes of: Judicial-system Keyword

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

Michael Kinsley

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

Look, dude, you've sampled your life, mixed those sounds with a funk precedent, and established a sixteen-bar system of government for the entire rhythm nation. Set the Dj up as the executive, the legislative, and judicial branches. I mean, after lis...

Slumberland

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.

Flanagan: Fucking black people, huh? Graham: What did you just say? Flanagan: I mean, I know all the sociological reasons why, per capita eight times more black men are incarcerated than white men... Schools are a disgrace, lack of opportunity, bias ...

Crash

The difference between the past and the present is that individual freedom and security no longer fall to be protected solely through the D vehicle of common-law maxims and presumptions which may be altered or repealed by statute, but are now protect...

Pius Langa

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

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Stephen Leacock

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

Thorstein Veblen

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

Ron Kind

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

Zachary Taylor

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

Emma Thompson

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Ernest Istook