The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.
My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.
I love working the legislative process.
Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.
Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.
You let Congress make the laws. You work with the Congress as the president to make sure that those laws are accurate and to the best of our ability, but you don't turn it over to the federal judges to make those laws.
I've been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest.
Our role as judges is to interpret the law.