Judicial behavior Quotes

Half as sober as a judge.

Judge [Samuel] Alito, I'll tell you the same thing I told John Roberts. I expect you to adhere to the Code of Judicial Conduct.

I was always like, "I'm going to be the drunk judge who's like, 'Objection!' 'In chambers!' "

Judges cannot - nor should they try to - align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge. They should, however, conform their own behavior to the Church's standard.

No doubt, there are those who believe that judges - and particularly dissenting judges - write to hear themselves say, as it were, 'I, I, I.' And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions.

I have been known for my courtesy on and off the bench.

The American people increasingly are losing confidence in the Supreme Court, in large part because of the behavior of certain members of that Court and because of certain rulings, including the Dobbs decision, and taking away a precedent that had been in place for 50 years, protecting a woman’s right to make decisions about her own body. So I do believe that there should be some kind of reform of the Court.

In the last 12 years we studied, 24 percent of the Judges of the Supreme Court Were women. Yet 32 percent of the interruptions of judges in Supreme Corutr hearings by other judges were interruptions of women. [Only] four percent of the interruptiojn of other judges were made by women [Supreme Court Justices.

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

People have a fundamental right to information about the government, but the right to justice trumps that. Cameras in the courtroom seem to affect behavior.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he's very funny and very smart.