Best quotes by Sonia Sotomayor on Law

Checkout quotes by Sonia Sotomayor on Law

• ‟ We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.

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• ‟ I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

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• ‟ The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

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• ‟ If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.

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• ‟ My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.

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• ‟ I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

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• ‟ All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

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• ‟ Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law.

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• ‟ It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.

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• ‟ I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.

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