People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost

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

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly changing social, economic, and technological conditions.

I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can't have children. To take a state that does allow adoption and say-there, what is the justification for saying no gay marriage? Certainly not the one you said, is it?

Judges are appointed often through the political process