Quotes About Judicial Activism

#1. As Alexander Hamilton said in 'The Federalist Papers,' law is about the exercise of judgment and not will. Judicial activism is best understood as substituting judicial opinion for the command of law. The law is not an infinitely malleable tool.

Edwin Meese

#2. If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.

Thomas Sowell

#3. Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point.

Ann Coulter

#4. Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Ernest Istook

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

Michael Kinsley

#6. 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 protection clause.

Michael Kinsley

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

Ted Cruz

#8. Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.

Rush Limbaugh

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

Thomas Sowell

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

James W. Mercer

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

Michael Kinsley

#12. I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism.

Ronald Reagan

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

Stockwell Day

#14. Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

Hugh Prather

#15. No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

Susie Orbach

#16. Modern Existentialism ... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.

William Barrett

#17. Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude.

Mark Thomas

#18. If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.

Simon Cowell

#19. You can't understand where you should be going until you understand what you were created to be.

Norma Gail

#20. His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people to whom he was pledged. Three million. They were the currency of his freedom.

Colum McCann