Ayelet Shaked Quotes

The Presidency is for four years, but the Supreme Court is forever.

It is not my call ... it is not for the judicial branch to decide.

Anyone who has followed my work knows that I'm an advocate of reducing the power of the High Court of Justice, according to the principle of separation of powers.

Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

The federal courts do not sit as an ombudsman, refereeing the disputes between the other two branches.

... the opinion of the Supreme Court ... ought not to control the co-ordinate authorities of this Government. The Congress, the Executive, and the Court, must each be guided by its own opinion of the constitution.

In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: The judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.

It has been the judiciary that has preserved the Constitution rather than the other two separated powers.

It may be said, indeed, that the Constitution has given to the Executive the power to annul the acts of the legislative body by refusing to them his assent.

Federal judges will never be so wild, so absurd, so mad as to pretend that they are superior to the legislative power of America.

The judicial branch of the government is the least dangerous because … it has no influence over either the sword or the purse.

While the seeming independence of the federal judiciary has played a vital part in making its actions virtual Holy Writ for the bulk of the people, it is also and ever true that the judiciary is part and parcel of the government apparatus and appointed by the executive and legislative branches.

In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.

There's no such thing as judicial supremacy.

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.

No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

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.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

The framers of our Constitution thought it was of critical, critical importance, in establishing three branches of government, that we have an independent judiciary. Therefore was that without that, the provisions of the constitution couldn’t be enforced

The judicial authority shall not be carried out either by the legislative authority or by the king, but by magistracies instituted and elected to that end.

The purpose of a written constitution is to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.

The fact that the judiciary makes foolish rulings doesn’t mean the government should intervene.