Ken Cuccinelli Quotes

So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed.

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

The Supreme Court overrules, distinguishes, and upholds prior precedents. Sometimes it ignores them. But it does not - cannot - 'defy' them.

When a nationwide injunction constrains a significant executive policy, the Justice Department has little choice but to seek emergency relief.

Judges should decide legal disputes. Judges should not make law.

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

Judges should interpret the law, not make it.

I believe I am strengthening the Constitution with my case.

I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.

Of the judicial department of the Government, the Supreme Court is the head and representative, and to it must come for final decision all the great legal questions which may arise under the Constitution, the laws, or the treaties of the United States.

The value of a decision as a precedent is very much enhanced by the care with which it has been considered, and if the opinion itself shows that other decisions of the same court, or of other courts upon the same point, have been reviewed and examined, it adds to the value of the decision made on each consideration.

They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

The [Supreme] Court did not interpret the Constitution—the court amended it.

We all come to the [Supreme] Court with our bags fully packed. What we take out of them may not have been used before, but they were there.

John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.

Judges will have the expounding of those laws when they come before them; and they will no doubt stop the operation of such as shall appear repugnant to the constitution.

The Supreme Court only hears the cases that it wants to hear.

The FCC should obviously not propose bad rules that will be struck down; it should propose good rules that will be upheld.

I actually had the opportunity to stand at the lectern in the Supreme Court and face the justices, which was really a powerful thing for me.

I don't think that the Supreme Court really takes cases with kind of a theme in mind. They get about 10,000 requests a year, and what are called 'petitions for certiorari,' which are essentially 30 page documents which say, 'Hey, Court, hear my case.' And they don't take very many of them.