Hugo Black Quotes About Judging

Quotes about: Judging

• The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.

  Hugo Black

  Views, Justice, Judging

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

  Hugo Black

  Patriotic, Wind, Judging

• We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case.

  Hugo Black

  Believe, Judging, Trials

  Illinois v. Allen, 397 U.S. 337, 343, 1970.

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