15 Quotes by Raymond Kethledge

In my own opinions as a judge, I have never yet had occasion to find a statute ambiguous.

In my view, statutory ambiguities are less like dandelions on an unmowed lawn than they are like manufacturing defects in a modern automobile: they happen, but they are pretty rare, given the number of parts involved.

A lawyer who makes an impression as credible, competent, and civil is one whose thoughts I'll take seriously.

Reading a brief filled with ad hominem attacks is like listening to my kids fight, except that I have to wait until we're in the courtroom to tell the attacking lawyer what I think about it.

Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targeted citizens for mistreatment based on their political views. No citizen - Republican or Democrat, Socialist or libertarian - should be targeted or even have to fear being targeted on those grounds.

I would make sure that the values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values.

I won't write about a subject unless I've mastered it.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

While driving to work, I'll choose to think about a particular subject rather than just have random thought streams landing on one subject or another. For example, I might think about the structure of an opinion. Or I might think about the first sentence of an opinion, refining it.