Thom Tillis Quotes

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

Republicans say to Democrats, “Your judges are political activists.” The Democrats respond to the Republicans, “Your judges are political activists.” So the public thinks that all judges are political activists and just politicians in robes. This is very worrying.

My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

Of all officers of government, those in whose appointment any participation of popular suffrage is the most objectionable are judicial officers.

Members of the Supreme Court have lifetime tenures because they're not supposed to do politics.

We need a Supreme Court justice who will restore fairness, balance, and independence to the highest level of the judiciary. Based on his record, I do not believe Gorsuch would be that kind of justice.

I have no doubt that if confirmed, Judge Gorsuch would help to restore confidence in the rule of law. His years on the bench reveal a commitment to judicial independence - a record that should give the American people confidence that he will not compromise principle to favor the president who appointed him.

I think my legacy will be in what most people don't like about me: my style - the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I'm criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail.

A president shouldn't tell the judiciary what to do.

I believe that an independent and impartial judiciary is essential to our constitutional republic.

What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.

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

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

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.

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.

The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.

The judiciary must be independent, impartial and autonomous to impart justice to the people and establish rule of law in the society.

The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges