Judy Sheindlin Quotes

I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.

Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.

I think cameras should be in the courtroom, but they need to be managed properly. You need a judge to hold the line.

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

People have a fundamental right to information about the government, but the right to justice trumps that. Cameras in the courtroom seem to affect behavior.

The Supreme Court should televise its proceedings.

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.

I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

Proceeding should be televised. There is nothing secret about a trial. It should always be open. I think the Supreme Court is just a little bit stuffy about televising its proceedings.

Impeachment is a bungling way to remove judges.

No nation can answer for perfect exactitude of proceedings in all their inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature where all error and partiality will be ultimately corrected

I don’t see any problem with having proceedings televised. I think it would be good for the public.

Make your judges responsible. Impeach them. Impeachment of a judge would be a very healthful thing in these times

The practice of dealing with publications scandalizing judges under the criminal process of contempt of court ought to be stopped, voluntarily by the judges or under the compulsion of impeachment.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.

If we start exposing what gets said in a grand jury, you won't get anybody to testify.

Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal authority to execute that surveillance, and finally, removing any accountable judicial oversight, creates the opportunity for unprecedented influence over our system of government.

Until I was justice minister, Netanyahu was proud of stopping laws to change the judiciary.

The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.

Poland needs reform of the judiciary, but I am a supporter of a wise reform.

A judge is not a god or a king. He has the last word most of the time, but sometimes, one makes mistakes.

Don't be in denial. Police misconduct is nothing new, but the technology we have to capture it is. Nearly everyone is now equipped with a smartphone with a camera, so these incidents are more readily caught on film.

Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.

Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.