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[The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.
The question is yet before the court.
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
The Constitution provides for one democratic moment, Judge, before a lifetime of judicial independence, when the people of the United States are entitled to know as much as we can about the person that we're about to entrust with safeguarding our future and the future of our kids.
The Courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise will instead of judgement; the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body.
Of the judicial department of the Government, the Supreme Court is the head and representative, and to it must come for final decision all the great legal questions which may arise under the Constitution, the laws, or the treaties of the United States.
I am the law, and I am the judge!
The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.
Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep
Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are often obliged to infer one thing from another, and this, whether that other be a fact direct or circumstantial.
Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.
[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.
(45) We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well.
Honorable Judge Robert Galbraith
Oh, wise young judge.
I was privileged to serve as a judge.
The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.
The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
No one is a judge in his own case.
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of
chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
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.
To hell with your courts, I know what justice is.
Law is king of all.
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.
Who judges the judge who judges wrong?
The outstanding examples are still Cardozo's Nature of the Judicial Process18
The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.
The Law and the Lawgiver are one.
[There are] judges who stretch the law ... to suit reactionary attitudes.
The court does not fly off the handle. It does not shout abuse. It speaks calmly.
The whole world is a court case ... and we're all ... defendants.
In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes. Judges must settle legal disputes, not pursue agendas. Judges must interpret and apply the law, not make the law.
Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.
Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.
Commission for Justice and Peace
Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments
The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it.
While the seeming independence of the federal judiciary has played a vital part in making its actions virtual Holy Writ for the bulk of the people, it is also and ever true that the judiciary is part and parcel of the government apparatus and appointed by the executive and legislative branches.
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
I do think you have sort of a general philosophical approach that you want from a justice, and I think a strict constructionist would be probably the way I'd describe it.
A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.
I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!
Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.
Judges are men who in the cool of the evening undo work that better men do in the heat of the day.
Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?
Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators.
...when these matters are discussed by practical people, the standard of justice depends on the equality of power to compel...
[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.
Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.
The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.
We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.
The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.
"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.
Problems. (Id. at 1379-83.) In particular, the court pointed
All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.
One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law.
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
Justice is like a great home cooked meal; it may not come at the ideal time, but when it does it is served and delicious.
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.
Seats on the [Court] bench are not reserved for causes or interests. They're given to those who will uphold the rule of law so long as the nominee is well-qualified to interpret and apply the law.
What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?
The careful untangling of a legal issue. Like math, but with words.
As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.
for an informed judgment
The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.
LAWYER. Justice that destroys itself in seeking to be just! - - - Right, that so often fosters wrong!!! DAUGHTER
Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.
In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.
Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.
[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it.
The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.
Justice is incidental to law and order.
Without question, the court does play a vital role in our constitutional system.
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
It is the duty of a judge to do justice, but it is only the people who can be just
Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.
What gives you the right to play judge and jury and executioner?
The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.
Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy.
Law is the rudder of the ship of state.
Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.
We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God
Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges;
but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether
the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner,
would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.
Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!
The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
the details of every legal proceeding
The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.
To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage.
The judge does not make the law. It is the people that make the law. It is the duty of a judge to do justice, but it is only the people that can be just
If the court wasn't ruled by emotions, we might as well not have lawyers or judges. Let machines do the work for us.