Robert Bork Quotes About Judging

Quotes about: Judging

• Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

  Robert Bork

  Men, Ideas, Judging

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.355, Simon and Schuster

• When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions

  Robert Bork

  Judging, Assuming, Legislation

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

• In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

  Robert Bork

  Law, Judging, Democracy

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

• Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass, those who have tempted the courts to political judging will have gained nothing for themselves but will have destroyed a great and essential institution. . . . There are only two sides. Either the Constitution and statutes are law, which means their principles are known and control judges, or they are malleable texts that judges may rewrite to see that particular groups or political causes win.

  Robert Bork

  Mean, Winning, Views

• The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why the American public accepts the decisions of its courts, accepts even decisions that nullify the laws a majority of the electorate or their representatives voted for.

  Robert Bork

  Law, Judging, Decision

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

• When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the process of democracy.

  Robert Bork

  People, Judging, Democracy

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