Legal Overreach Quotes

We've got to put a restraining order on our legal system. We're suing ourselves silly.

As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws

The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws.

When a New York attorney general brings a lawsuit against a prominent business person, there are two things you can count on out of that office - lots of political bluster and little accountability.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.

The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absurdity and cruelty. The British are fast turning themselves into a nation of slaves, where even the slave-masters are not free.

A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers.