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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."
Office
"We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges."
Judges
"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."
Fact
"To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty."
Justice
"We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other."
Public
"I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less."
Government
"Judges are appointed often through the political process."
Judges
"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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"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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"As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there."
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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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"All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table."
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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 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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