Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Amul Thapar

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American judge Amul Thapar.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Amul Thapar

Amul Roger Thapar is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and former United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky. He was also President Trump's first Court of Appeals appointment and Trump's second judicial appointment after Justice Neil Gorsuch. Thapar was discussed as a candidate for the Supreme Court of the United States.

It is not the responsibility of the judiciary to amend poor legislative drafting, even if judges would personally prefer a different outcome than what is required by a statute's text.
The Boston College community took a personal interest in my success, not only as a student but as a human being.
Most Americans don't know how beautiful an area of the country Kentucky is. — © Amul Thapar
Most Americans don't know how beautiful an area of the country Kentucky is.
Keeping politics out of the courtroom is a goal every state aspires to achieve.
A defendant can use discovery to run out the clock on the plaintiff and to make the plaintiff run out of money.
At some point, the law has to command respect, and there is a lawful way to change it.
I don't have the wherewithal to judge God's will. I don't have the wherewithal to determine whether your viewpoints are right or wrong.
I am a proud Article III judge. We've been criticized from the beginning of this great country. What I will say about me and my colleagues is it doesn't matter to us.
I'm my own judge, and I hope my track record speaks to that.
You can't put a price on being proud of what you do.
The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate's political speech is more speech - not government censorship.
I support an equal playing field for plaintiffs and defendants - and the way to get that equal playing field is not by having unlimited discovery.
Everyone should think seriously about public service at some point.
The average juror is not Mr. Spock. If he were, then a trial-court judge's job would be much easier. He could instruct the jury in broad strokes - instructing only as to the bare elements of the crime, perhaps - and be confident that the jury would deduce all of the finer-grained implications that must logically follow.
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