Judges get their start on the bench by sucking up to politicians. I have in over 80+ years never seen a judge who I could bow to out of respect but I have been bowed by evil people in courts.
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Hammond, Aug 18, 1821"The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one."
"The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them."-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge Spencer Roane, Mar 9, 1821
"The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone."-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Ritchie, December 25, 1820