Court Power Quotes

I do not agree that the court can or should redefine marriage.

The court’s agents may enter into men’s houses, break up their chests and chambers

The Supreme Court recognizes no authority greater than itself. Not the Constitution. Not the Almighty.

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

I don't think I can change the fact that the court can cancel a law, but I think the court should only get involved in extreme issues like human rights violations.

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

The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.

What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

Narrow scope of judicial power was the reason that people accepted the idea that the federal courts could have the power of judicial review; that is, the ability to decide whether a challenged law comports with the Constitution.

I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.

An injunction can't run a subway.

Perhaps sensing the dismal failure of its efforts to show that 'established by the State' means 'established by the State or the Federal Government,' the Court tries to palm off the pertinent statutory phrase as "inartful drafting.' This Court, however, has no free-floating power 'to rescue Congress from its drafting errors.'

The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.

This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added.