#judicial

We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

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Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

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

— Irving R. Kaufman

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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

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We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court system that's crying out for more judges. ↗

— Joe Lockhart

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We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

— John Yoo

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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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