Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Founders of our country, committed to justice and fairness for all its citizens and in establishing a structure that would make this country uniquely strong as a democracy, gave us three coequal branches of our government. Two of those branches have dominated the national news recently as we lurch from crisis to crisis, from fiscal cliff to sequester. The back-and-forth between the President and Congress, between the executive and the legislative branches, has been the headline day after day. Meanwhile, the third coequal branch, the judicial branch of our Federal Government, has quietly gone about its business, doing its job for the American people, providing fair hearings, equal justice under the law, the basic right to a speedy resolution to any dispute--or has it? All around this country members of the judicial branch are getting their jobs done but with fewer and fewer resources and support, fewer colleagues on the bench than ever before. Nearly 10 percent of all Federal judgeships--positions for Federal judges that should be filled--are vacant, empty, leaving those judges who are on the bench overwhelmed with steadily increasing caseloads and unable to provide the level of service, certainty, and swift resolution that the American people deserve and upon which our government was predicated. Particularly when you are the one going into court seeking redress or when you are the one facing legal action, justice delayed is justice denied.…”