But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.
It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty
To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.
We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.
Judges are appointed often through the political process
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