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"We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges."
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"You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment."
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"You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts."
People
"Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts."
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"To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty."
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"Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment."
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"It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty."
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"At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over."
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"And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?"
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"Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him."
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"Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want."
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"You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer."
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"Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected."
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"I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed."
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"There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise."
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"Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times."
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"We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field."
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"We're all the harshest judges of ourselves."
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"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."
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"We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges."
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"Judges are appointed often through the political process."
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