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Remember when John Roberts was seeking confirmation of the Supreme Court, and he said judges should be just like umpires, just calling balls and strikes? Well, turnabout is fair play. What baseball needs behind the plate are umpires like those judges who are called strict constructionists, which means you follow subtle law to the letter.
- Frank Deford
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Judges should interpret the law, not make it.
- Lamar S. Smith
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I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.
- Edwin Edwards
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When I saw Adele, I thought: 'I'll give it an hour before people say I was her,' just because I was fat. When you watch 'X Factor,' you can bet your bottom dollar, every single fat singer sounds like me as far as the judges are concerned. Can you imagine if they did that with every black artist?
- Alison Moyet
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The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.
- Michael Kinsley
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Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
- Ron Paul
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Threats to the rule of law come not only from rioters and looters in the streets, but also from activist judges on the bench.
- Tom Fitton
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
- Leonard Cohen
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I remain mindful that the role of a judge is a limited one and that judges can't solve every problem. But at the same time, judges play a crucial role in safeguarding liberty and protecting the rights of all citizens.
- David Stras
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Maybe we just need to strip away actual learning how to dance and do more gimmicks. Maybe that's what the judges will appreciate more.
- Artem Chigvintsev
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Every time I go to the judges, I never get it.
- Dereck Chisora
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
- Kate Adie
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Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
- Alec Baldwin
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Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.
- John Conyers
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I'm one of three judges on 'MasterChef' with Gordon Ramsay, but I don't want my own show. I'm kind of used to the sidekick gig.
- Joe Bastianich
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Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers - nor friends, either.
- Andrew Marr
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It is not the responsibility of the judiciary to amend poor legislative drafting, even if judges would personally prefer a different outcome than what is required by a statute's text.
- Amul Thapar
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As a general rule, I do not think judges should consider current societal preferences when ruling on constitutional challenges.
- Paul Watford
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No one ever judges their own self.
- James Wolk
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The extent to which lawyers and judges are interfering in politics is something that concerns many people.
- Kwasi Kwarteng
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Malpractice tort reform can be something as commonsensical as the establishment of medical courts - similar to bankruptcy or admiralty courts - with special judges to make determinations in cases brought by parties claiming injury.
- Bill Bradley
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The criminal justice system is not the right place - or it shouldn't be the place of first resort to provide addiction or mental health services. It should happen elsewhere with no police and no judges and no juries and no jails.
- Ted Wheeler
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I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.
- John Jay Hooker
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The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.
- Frederic William Farrar
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You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.
- David Boies
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I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.
- Matt Gonzalez
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Judges have to be neutral, but they don't have to be eunuchs.
- Jed S. Rakoff
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The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges.
- Steve Chabot
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Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
- Kapil Sibal
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I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.
- Arlen Specter
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One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't.
- Michael Arrington
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We do not judge great art. It judges us.
- Caroline Gordon
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Judges have a hard job. It's not just putting someone in jail or slapping someone on the wrist and giving them a punishment, but it's protecting society as a whole.
- Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
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Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.
- Jeff Sessions
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What I've learned over the years... judges are conscientious... not like lawyers, who give opinions.
- Richard Cordray
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Good judges do not side with anyone. They rule impartially and blindly based upon the law.
- Wendy Long
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Blue slips enable home-state senators to ensure that the federal judges serving in their states are highly qualified.
- Mazie Hirono
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Cabinet resolutions approving mass releases of terrorists deal a mortal blow to the status of Israel's judges and courts.
- Ayelet Shaked
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We want to let our play be the judges.
- Dan Quinn
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Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
- Noah Feldman
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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.
- William Howard Taft
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The transformation of the D.C. Circuit has been replicated in federal courts around the country. Obama has had two hundred and eighty judges confirmed, which represents about a third of the federal judiciary.
- Jeffrey Toobin
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Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.
- John Roberts
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Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.
- Benjamin N. Cardozo
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Our role as judges is to interpret the law.
- Thomas Hardiman
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Judges should always behave judicially by adjudicating, never politically by legislating. I leave policy to policymakers. They're preeminent, but they're not omnipotent. In other words, lawmakers decide if laws pass, but judges decide if laws pass muster.
- Don Willett
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Judges should interpret the laws according to what they say, not according to what the judges wish they would say. Judges are supposed to interpret the laws; they are not supposed to make them.
- Joan Larsen
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Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.
- Dennis Hastert
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We should trust judges to be independent, investigators to be independent.
- Eric Swalwell
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I was delighted when Booktrust asked me to be chair of judges for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010.
- Tony Bradman
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I know, if I would have won 'X-Factor' and if I would have continued in that lane, I would have spiraled out of control. Performing on there was good, but it wasn't me. It was me compromising for the judges, just different people around.
- Astro
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I don't have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections.
- Jed S. Rakoff
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While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls on November 6 is crucial. If electoral victory is achieved, Obamacare can and will be repealed - and more judges of a constitutionalist persuasion will be appointed by the next president.
- Bill Kristol
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No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
- Orrin Hatch
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While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.
- John Boehner
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Judges should decide legal disputes. Judges should not make law.
- Joseph Wapner
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I had been very impressed with the courts we visited to see my father. The judges wearing wigs, the lawyers, the legal arguments - it was all exciting stuff for a kid.
- Asma Jahangir
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We have seen too many arbitrary Strasbourg diktats based on the whims of European judges - from prisoner voting to blocking deportation of Abu Qatada - rather than a sober reading of the sensible list of core freedoms in the European Convention itself.
- Dominic Raab
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The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.
- Johnnie Cochran
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Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.
- Mike DeWine
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The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.
- Kapil Sibal
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Practicing in the trial work trenches of the law, I saw, too, that when we judges don our robes, it doesn't make us any smarter, but it does serve as a reminder of what's expected of us: Impartiality and independence, collegiality and courage.
- Neil Gorsuch
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There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years.
- James Green Somerville
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I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.
- Anthony Kennedy
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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
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During my years as a practicing lawyer, it just was part of your study of what Congress was trying to say in their statutes. I never really considered judges or scholars as either those who used legislative history or those who were opposed to it until after I got on the court.
- John Paul Stevens
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I always look for judges who respect precedent.
- Susan Collins
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It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.
- Eric Liu
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In order to keep the judiciary independent of the executive, the constitution provided impeachment as the only method for disciplining errant judges.
- Prashant Bhushan
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Every institution, including the judiciary has its share of black sheep and corrupt judges.
- Prashant Bhushan
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When the rule of law is being perverted to the rule of the 'good intentions' of unelected judges, it is time for serious study of Thomas Paine and Sam Adams as much as Washington and Madison.
- Tom Tancredo
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What matters is voting for where you live: Who's your mayor, who's your police chief, who represents you, your city council, your judges. That matters that you vote.
- Joe Walsh
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What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.
- John Marshall
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
- Victoria Woodhull
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A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.
- David Horowitz
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The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
- Joyce Brothers
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The Supreme Court's non-transparent attitude on the disclosure of assets is in line with the judiciary's steadfast refusal to allow any transparency in the matter of appointment of judges, or for that matter, in the judiciary as a whole.
- Prashant Bhushan
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When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you didn't know whether you'd won or whether you'd lost.
- Judy Sheindlin
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We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.
- Susan Anton
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In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.
- Saint Ignatius
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Having been on the front lines of the confirmation battles involving Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, I know firsthand what is at stake when the Senate exercises its 'advise and consent' power over federal judges.
- Wendy Long
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Judges certainly have political connections and strong political views, but that doesn't mean they can't rise above politics when they hear cases. We expect them to, and the law presumes they do.
- George T. Conway III
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I think that one of the motivating factors was in my last year of law school: we had a competition, and I won the competition; it was judged by several of the federal judges at the time. I got a tremendous amount of encouragement to pursue litigation from them at the time.
- Robert Shapiro
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When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.
- Stephen J. Field
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Judges are real people with real-world experiences and backgrounds. We cannot expect them to erase their experiences and backgrounds from the mindset that informs their judicial decision-making.
- Thomas Rex Lee
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I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time.
- Sonia Sotomayor
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There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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On the whole, we think of our consumers - other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it's better to have it clearer than confusing.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.
- Ray Bradbury
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
- Francis Bacon
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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.
- Francis Bacon
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
- Ambrose Bierce
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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
- Franz Grillparzer
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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
- Robert Bork
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The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.
- Sandra Day O'Connor
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Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
- David Wilkerson
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Judges cannot - nor should they try to - align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge. They should, however, conform their own behavior to the Church's standard.
- Amy Coney Barrett
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