#judges

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#bush #elected #five #judges #lines

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

#fixed #humans #judges #monitoring #out

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#hang #hungry #judges #may #sentence

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it. ↗

— Jane Porter

#always #apt #astonished #capable #conduct

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#crime #current #imposed #invisible #judges

When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers. ↗

— William Kunstler

#america #brought #by the people #equally #establishment

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

#budget #congress #death #embrace #forcibly

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

#altering #been #changing #defined #ever

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family. ↗

— Donna Reed

#family #gamble #health #i #industry

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

#advised #all things #confident #integrity #judges