Quotes: Judges

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

Well, I’m not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

Nevada’s one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges’ salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.

There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise.

Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.

But I do believe this – I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.