Clergyman's

The role of the court is to apply law to the facts of the case before it … not to legislate, not to arrogate to itself the executive power, not to hand down advisory opinion on the issues of the day.
- Merrick Garland

The constitution sets all three branches out as co-equal. The obligation of the judicial branch — as far back as the decision in Marbury v. Madison — is to review the constitutionality and legality of actions by the other branches. And that is its only job, to decide cases and controversies in front of it under article three.
- Merrick Garland

But when I asked myself, as I often do: 'What would Judge Friendly have done?'
- Merrick Garland

I think there is no greater job anybody can have than having been a prosecutor.
- Merrick Garland

People must be confident that a judge’s decisions are determined by the law, and only the law.
- Merrick Garland

People must be confident that a judge’s decisions are determined by the law, and only the law.
- Merrick Garland

People must be confident that a judge’s decisions are determined by the law, and only the law.
- Merrick Garland

The CIA asked the courts to stretch that doctrine too far—to give their imprimatur to a fiction of deniability that no reasonable person would regard as plausible.
- Merrick Garland

If the CIA is the emperor, you're asking us to say the emperor has clothes when the emperor's bosses say that the emperor doesn't. I mean, how can you ask the court to say that at this point?
- Merrick Garland

Everybody, I think, who hopes to become a judge would aspire to be able to write as well as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. None are going to be able to attain that. But I’ll try at least — if confirmed to be as brief and pithy as he is.
- Merrick Garland