Judicial Appointments Quotes

Republicans say to Democrats, “Your judges are political activists.” The Democrats respond to the Republicans, “Your judges are political activists.” So the public thinks that all judges are political activists and just politicians in robes. This is very worrying.

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

America is just so imperative that we have the right justices.

Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

Trump knows where his strengths exist, and he is emphatically in favor of doubling down on them. This goes far beyond appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

President Trump has kept his promise to nominate great conservative judges and I'm proud to support Damon Leichty for the Northern District of Indiana.

The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges.

I have strong differences with Mr. Trump on a woman's right to choose and what kind of justices belong on the Supreme Court.

If people want to change the law, they should vote so that we can appoint pro-life judges. I believe the law should be changed.

We've always said a filibuster is not appropriate for judicial nominees. A filibuster is a legislative tool designed to extract compromises. A judicial nominee is a person. You can't take the arm or leg of a nominee.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each successive wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

I was driven years ago to the conclusion that political considerations had not hurt the character of appointments here [the supreme court].

If you look at the Constitution, the two clauses of the Constitution make it very clear the president shall nominate, and the Senate shall provide advice and consent. It's been since 1888 that a Senate of a different party than the president in the White House confirmed a Supreme Court nominee.

If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair.

Until I was justice minister, Netanyahu was proud of stopping laws to change the judiciary.

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

I consider the United States Senate the greatest deliberative body in the world, and I respect the important role the Constitution affords it in the confirmation of our judges.

We need more justices who will uphold the Constitution, follow the rule of law, and protect our Montana way of life.

Some of the most impressive judicial nominees are grossly mistreated.

Exempting judicial nominations from filibusters would expand Presidential power.

Any reasonable person looking at the policy results... the substance... the facts would agree that the Trump presidency is one of the most successful in American history.

Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure any more that in a given case they will uphold the plainest mandate of the Constitution. On the contrary, everyone begins to be more or less convinced in advance that they won't. Judges are chosen not because they know the Constitution and are in favor of it, but precisely because they appear to be against it.

Over time, I think, and with further appointments to the Supreme Court, I think that the Roe v. Wade opinion will fall.

We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.