Brett Kavanaugh Quotes

The law itself is on trial in every case as well as the cause before it.

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.

Law enforcement does not ask an advantage in its struggle with the lawless. It asks only that the scales of justice be balanced. The cause of justice is not served when hardened criminals are allowed to go free through legal technicalities.

We cannot say that we love the rule of law and reject arguments that appeal to the rule of law as technicalities and hair splitting.

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

We do not sit like a kadi under a tree dispensing justice according to considerations of individual expediency

Using legally approved tricks and lies, the detective coerces a false confession. Hiding facts that support innocence, the prosecutor forces a dubious plea of guilt. The judge sentences for acquitted conduct, as she is allowed to do. The defense attorney for the poor, overworked because of underfunding by the state, fails to summon sufficient resources to investigate and rebut. The legal immigrant is deported with no meaningful access to constitutional rights. These intrusions are woven into the statutes and enabled by courts

Rule of law is based on probable cause.

My judicial philosophy is straightforward.

The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice. The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges’ views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice.

Preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.

Isn’t he who chooses the judge the master of justice?

The job of a justice is justice.