Some judges, when elevated to the Supreme Court, have taken it as licence to act as philosopher-kings, laying down the kind of enlightened laws that the oafs in Congress ought to have passed but did not.

ECONOMIST: The Supreme Court

Too often since the early 1960s, judges have acted like philosopher-kings or tyrants, depending on your political point of view.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Judges, including Supreme Court justices, often act as if they were philosopher-kings, arbitrarily handing down decisions on issues that should be left to the hurly-burly of the political process.

FORBES: Fact and Comment