Amy Coney Barrett Quotes

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

I think judges have to have the ability to put aside their personal views and rule on the facts of the case with fidelity to the law and the Constitution.

If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the government against the condemned, a vital spark of American democracy would be extinguished.

I would never impose my own personal convictions upon the law.

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.

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.

I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it upholds the rule of law and safeguards those liberties that make this land one of endless possibilities for all Americans.

As judges we are neither Jew nor gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic …. As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them.

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

The [English] constitution does not allow reasons of state to influence our [the judges] judgement. God forbid that it should. We must not regard political consequences, however formidable they may be.

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

There are judges who stretch the law...to suit reactionary attitudes.

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

Judges ... rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

Judges should follow the law in deciding cases - not their own values, good or bad.

The best way to have empathy for people and the best way to have empathy for our Constitution is to appoint judges who will rule based on the law and to have empathy, if you will, for the law only and to rule based on the law.

Good judges do not side with anyone. They rule impartially and blindly based upon the law.

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

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

I do not believe there are any circumstances in which a judge should consider his or her own values or policy preferences in determining what the law means.

The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".

The government … spends more and more of our tax money financing "faith-based organizations." Without faith we might relapse into scientific or rational thinking, which leads by a slippery slope toward constitutional democracy.

The judge may safely promise witches to spare their lives, if only he will later excuse himself from pronouncing the sentence and will let another do this in his place... .