Amy Coney Barrett Quotes

I have written this treatise because there are judges who decide cases according to their own will rather than by the authority of the laws

If we refuse to obey our own laws, can we really preach to the world the importance of the rule of law.

I was an attorney general. That was - that matters to me, and if you won't obey your own rules, there's no reason to think you'll obey any others.

We shouldn't tell prosecutors to 'pick and choose' what laws to uphold.

It's never appropriate for a judge to impose that judge's personal convictions - whether they derive from faith or anywhere else - on the law.

The problem is not that the Supreme Court is just conservative, the problem is that it is corrupt.

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

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.

At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.

A license to practice law is not a license to violate it.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

The judges’ individual sense of justice ... might result in a benevolent despotism if the judges were benevolent men. [But] It would put an end to the reign of law

We believe that all governments necessarily require civil officers and magistrates to enforce the laws of the same; and that such as will administer the law in equity and justice should be sought for and upheld by the voice of the people.

A first principle of Anglo-American jurisprudence is that the ends do not justify the means.

… the magistrate should know what law he is to administer, that the subject should know under what law he is to live.

The Dutch public has always been accustomed to being treated according to the letter of the law.

Rule of law is based on probable cause.

A judge sometimes must release a criminal. He doesn't like it, she doesn't like it, but the law requires it. And the context of an election in which you are "soft on crime" betrays a misunderstanding of the judicial process and a misunderstanding of the Constitution.

I will stand up for judges who faithfully follow the law as it is written.

Too many of us had to suffer at the hands of a judiciary so independent that it often acted independently of both the basic principles of jurisprudence and the very constitution it swore to uphold and protect.

The Attorney General is not above the law.

I am a pro-law judge.

Were I confirmed as a judge, I would decide cases according to the rule of law beginning to end.

As attorney general I see my role as defender both of press freedom and of the fair administration of justice.

Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law.