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Monitor, transparently, and enforce the separation of Democracy powers: Legislative; Executive; Judicial — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. — Eric Holder

That's the whole point of ... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case. — Andrew Thomas

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed. — Thomas Sowell

Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall ... I say to you, my friends, let it fall! — Fob James

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is. — John Marshall

People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus. — Martin Mayer

Heaven is the only place where prayers are not made. — Ellen J. Barrier

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box. — Rush Limbaugh

The outstanding examples are still Cardozo's Nature of the Judicial Process18 — Richard A. Posner

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

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

The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process. — Eric Holder

Dear Police:
You can't protect me and be scared of me. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I considered my home sanctuary from the judicial arena, far from the Fernoza Family legacy, and I had no intention of sharing it with anyone. — A.E.H. Veenman

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

I would never filibuster any President's judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote. — Saxby Chambliss

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics. — Edwin Percy Whipple

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period. — Sean MacBride

This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description. — Orrin Hatch

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court. — Michel Foucault

Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany. — Benjamin Carson

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

Once the Constitution became a legal rather than a political document, judicial review, although not judicial supremacy, became inevitable. — Gordon S. Wood

Corrupt judicial practices in Russia, America, China, Great Britain, and other countries only vary by a single degree: the cost of services. — Christopher Mart

A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages. — John Yoo

[Louis] Brandeis is often painted as an acolyte of judicial restraint, or the view that judges should uphold laws whether or not they like them. — Jeffrey Rosen

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority. — Diane Watson

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law. — Sonia Sotomayor

As ordeals and duels gave way to confession as a proof of guilt, judicial torture was actually increasing in France. — Eric Jager

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty. — Robert H. Jackson

It's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance. — Franz Kafka

Judge [Samuel] Alito, I'll tell you the same thing I told John Roberts. I expect you to adhere to the Code of Judicial Conduct. — Jon Kyl

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself. — Daniel Webster

The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights. — Herb Kohl

To say that we have to surrender to judicial supremacy is to do what Jefferson warned against, which is, in essence, surrender to judicial tyranny. — Mike Huckabee

You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution. — Ted Cruz

We must apply a judicial rather than a political standard to the information before us [if choosing a Judge]. — Orrin Hatch

Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the original one. — Auberon Waugh

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions. — Newt Gingrich

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget. — Phyllis Schlafly

The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility. — Felix Frankfurter

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law. — Lamar S. Smith

No judicial nomination should answer any question that is designed to reveal how the nominee will rule on any issue that could come before the court. — Jon Kyl

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention. — James Toback

Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. — Felix Frankfurter

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. — Sam Ervin

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

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

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power. — Herb Kohl

The goal of the judicial system should be to rehabilitate wrongdoers rather than harming them, — Steven Pinker

To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed. — Felix Frankfurter

Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too. — William O. Douglas

Obama was particularly offended, as he put it, that "the National Security Agency has been spying on Americans without judicial approval." Justifying — Jeremy Scahill

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero. — Felix Frankfurter

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says. — John Marshall

The essence of sin is "I do not want to have God in my life." And the essence of God's judicial wrath is to give us what we have asked for. — Timothy Keller

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America. — Ernest Istook

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial. — George Eliot

Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is. — Alex Kozinski

There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme. — David Souter

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid. — Lyn Nofziger

I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution — Saxby Chambliss

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. — Irving R. Kaufman

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand. — Aristotle.

Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments. — Paul Weyrich

We must remember that judicial nominees are constrained in what they may discuss and how they may discuss it. — Orrin Hatch

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

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. — DMX