Judicial Power Quotes

“Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“A jury is always a more orthodox body than any defendant brought before it; for blacks it is usually a whiter group, for poor people, a more prosperous group...

Another lesson about the justice system: the way the judge charges the jury inevitably pushes them one way or the other, limits their independent judgment.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“The power of the bench is but the fear of the bar to prejudice its clients”
― B.S. Murthy