"Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts."

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"Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts."

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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."

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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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"Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment."

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