Jeff Sessions Quotes

A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge... stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands.

I don't have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections.

All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.

When it is left entirely to a judge to decide whether he should give place to another he becomes a judge in his case....

If a judge does his job right, you [the observer] will never know how he personally feels about the policies he may have to rule on.

The judge may not … express his … personal beliefs ... as to what is right or just

A judge who likes every opinion he reaches is a bad judge.

Practicing in the trial work trenches of the law, I saw, too, that when we judges don our robes, it doesn't make us any smarter, but it does serve as a reminder of what's expected of us: Impartiality and independence, collegiality and courage.

A judge may never subvert the law or twist it in any way to match the judge's convictions.

I would make sure that the values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values.

My personal opinions on any subject are really not relevant, not important, and to the extent that I might inject them, I am acting improperly as either a District Court judge or as an appellate court judge.

As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.

The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.

We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.

The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself. No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias.

No one should be judge in his own case.

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.

It's important not to get into the business of characterizing judges based on one decision they make

[Discussing the confirmation process:] A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process.

Juries are not qualified to judge questions of law, but they are very capable of judging questions of fact.

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.

Judges shall judge justly, according to the written law and not according to their own judgment.

It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.